Laminating Advice Sought
04-25-2008, 06:26 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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Laminating Advice Sought
I have a friend that has a well seasoned osage orange fence post about 4"X4"X 8' long. He has asked my advice on building a few stick bows out of it. My first impression is to cut slabs on a table saw and glue them together, but what do I know, I'm an xbower,lol. I was kind of hoping you guys would share your expertise on how thick to slice the slabs, what kind of glue to use and what dimensions might come up w/ about a 25 # bow for an 8 yr old I want to introduce to trad shooting. Maybe laminated is not truely trad, don't know and don't mean to insult the discipline, just looking for some advice. Tia.
04-25-2008, 07:12 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Laminating Advice Sought
I think you should make a phone call to some place like this and get the appropriate information. http://www.3riversarchery.com/Index.asp
I may be wrong because I know nothing about bow building but you can either make a laminated bow or a selfbow if the log is big enough. You also might want to slice the end of the log to show the end grain with a ruler against it to show the size of ring growth. You may find this interesting. http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=2770248
I may be wrong because I know nothing about bow building but you can either make a laminated bow or a selfbow if the log is big enough. You also might want to slice the end of the log to show the end grain with a ruler against it to show the size of ring growth. You may find this interesting. http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=2770248
04-25-2008, 08:11 PM
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RE: Laminating Advice Sought
ORIGINAL: awshucks
I have a friend that has a well seasoned osage orange fence post about 4"X4"X 8' long. He has asked my advice on building a few stick bows out of it. My first impression is to cut slabs on a table saw and glue them together, but what do I know, I'm an xbower,lol. I was kind of hoping you guys would share your expertise on how thick to slice the slabs, what kind of glue to use and what dimensions might come up w/ about a 25 # bow for an 8 yr old I want to introduce to trad shooting. Maybe laminated is not truely trad, don't know and don't mean to insult the discipline, just looking for some advice. Tia.
I have a friend that has a well seasoned osage orange fence post about 4"X4"X 8' long. He has asked my advice on building a few stick bows out of it. My first impression is to cut slabs on a table saw and glue them together, but what do I know, I'm an xbower,lol. I was kind of hoping you guys would share your expertise on how thick to slice the slabs, what kind of glue to use and what dimensions might come up w/ about a 25 # bow for an 8 yr old I want to introduce to trad shooting. Maybe laminated is not truely trad, don't know and don't mean to insult the discipline, just looking for some advice. Tia.
But if he is going to be building a glass laminated bow, then the osage is basically for looks.
04-27-2008, 09:35 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Laminating Advice Sought
Thanks for the advice, turned into a fiasco. Don't know what kind of wood he had, other than a twisted, warped, knotty, chuck of maybe knife handles, lol. Sure wasn't osage orange which they call "bodarc" here.
