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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: swimbill on September 16, 2009, 09:39:15 am

Title: splicing
Post by: swimbill on September 16, 2009, 09:39:15 am

good morning,

I have a 1" thick x 48" long mahogany board I would like to make into a bow.  My question is can I splice it together at the handle area and sandwich it between hickory to make a bow.  looking for something in the 40
3 range 66-72" long.  If possible any recomendations on thickness of each piece would be helpful

Title: Re: splicing
Post by: Dano on September 16, 2009, 10:24:16 am

Don't think mahogany will make very good bow wood, it's a little too brittle.

Title: Re: splicing
Post by: radius on September 16, 2009, 02:55:45 pm

never heard of sandwiching it...but dude, try it and see what happens

Title: Re: splicing
Post by: MaceG on September 17, 2009, 02:14:55 pm

Seen a splice something like that. Not sure what the woods were. I'll try to find it and give you a link.

Title: Re: splicing
Post by: MaceG on September 17, 2009, 02:18:55 pm

Here it is. It was in the build-a-long section.
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,10939.0.html
Hope that helps.

Title: Re: splicing
Post by: swimbill on September 17, 2009, 03:32:41 pm

MaceG  thanks
that is very much what I was looking for, although I am not sure now if mahogany is a very good wood to make a bow out of.

Title: Re: splicing
Post by: J05H on September 18, 2009, 04:31:33 pm

You never know until you try? Unless it cost you a fortune, I'd say go for it.

Title: Re: splicing
Post by: Dano on September 18, 2009, 05:10:07 pm

Here's a link to a list of bow woods that Tim Baker put together.

http://onemississipp.googlepages.com/bowwoods

Title: Re: splicing
Post by: MaceG on September 19, 2009, 04:42:33 am

Here's some more info on splicing

http://paleoplanet69529.yuku.com/topic/17611/t/Added-part-for-splicing-billets.html