Bamboo Flooring Bow Backing

If i was building a backed bow then it needs to be reg bamboo sinew cloth paper or some other sort of material.

Bamboo flooring bow backing.

3rivers offers bow backing strips limb laminations riser blanks bamboo fiberglass and even snakeskins. These planed bamboo strips are heat tempered in a commercial convec. Bowing or warping of floor boards can occur for several reasons. Your 60 inch bow would have probably worked well at 30 inch draw.

Bamboo possesses incredibly strong tension and a striking look making it a great choice for backing your medieval bow. Cutting the inside away with a bandsaw then grinding it by hand with the belt sander. A second way is to make a tri lam bow where you have a bamboo backing some type of core maybe ipe and then a belly lam of bamboo ipe or whatever. Ipe can be used on the belly and it s a great choice too.

I prepare the bamboo backing pretty much the same way i do on the bamboo backed ipe build along i e. If you run the belly lam up the fades there will be no glue joint to be under pressure since most of the compression forces happen on the surface of the belly along the continuous lam. Bamboo isn t particularly light but i think the machined panels and baords could work well if the bow is made short enough to stress the bamboo enough. How to fix bowed floors.

First whereas on the bbi build along i cut the bamboo to the shape of the bow before glue up in the case of the recurve i leave the. To build a bow you need to start with good material. As the owner of boise bows and arrows turgeon is a master bowyer and wilderness survival expert specialties that spawned from a youth spent in the idaho woods. If water has seeped into the boards they may swell against one another which can cause the bow.

I started making my own bows when i was seven because i wasn t allowed to have one he says speaking over the phone with cali bamboo. There were just two things i did differently. I wouldn t back a bow with boo flooring or ipe.