Bamboo Flooring Bow Backing

Tom turgeon is living a 12 year old s dream.

Bamboo flooring bow backing.

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. How to fix bowed floors. I wouldn t back a bow with boo flooring or ipe. If i was building a backed bow then it needs to be reg bamboo sinew cloth paper or some other sort of material.

Your 60 inch bow would have probably worked well at 30 inch draw. I prepare the bamboo backing pretty much the same way i do on the bamboo backed ipe build along i e. There were just two things i did differently. Ipe can be used on the belly and it s a great choice too.

Bamboo possesses incredibly strong tension and a striking look making it a great choice for backing your medieval bow. 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. 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. 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.

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. These planed bamboo strips are heat tempered in a commercial convec. To build a bow you need to start with good material. 3rivers offers bow backing strips limb laminations riser blanks bamboo fiberglass and even snakeskins.

Cutting the inside away with a bandsaw then grinding it by hand with the belt sander. I think it could go quite well with a bamboo backing to help hold it together. Bowing or warping of floor boards can occur for several reasons.