Thanks guys. I just hope I am helping out.


Why did I pick this combo?

Its all I hadthat wouldwork fora bi-lam. Cherry is not the easiest wood to make a bow with. Actually one of the more touchy woods. White oak is almost unbreakable, when it comes to bow woods. I had a white oak board that had some real straight grain, so I ripped it into backing strips. White oak can handle loads of tension so I chose it for the back. Only trade off with using white oak is, its not the snappiest wood and will take lots of set. I keep this lam light because of this reason. I'm not too worried about cherry over powering it.. The cherry was just laying around and the only thing I had close to a belly wood. Cherry can handle compression, but not tension. Not the best, but it will handle it. It makes a great laminate wood. Its real springy and light. But when its not under multi layers, it will compromise easily so you have to be real careful tillering it. If you get a hinge, its pretty much over. Well, a hinge can be fixed, but you will lose a lot of weight tillering to the hinge. I wanted to use some black walnut, but the only piece I have is horrible. I've been digging through my wood bens, down at another shop I have, and I'm getting real low on bow woods. I'm waiting on an order of ipe, and I might have found some osage. This after noon I'm going to be digging for lam woods and start ripping lams. Once I get off this board bow kick, I'm going to be making some R/D glasslam bows and some tri-lam bows.[/align]