Making Laminated Bow Limbs

Bows used in archery and hunting are created from different woods and additional materials depending on the type of bow you plan to make.

Making laminated bow limbs.

Use bow building glue that can handle the stresses of a bow s limbs. Our new wallets. Carbon unidirectional is a unidirectional carbon laminate limb core lamination that provides the ultimate in light weight strength stiffness and increased performance by providing the highest response rate of return weight reduction and fatigue life available. Mark the limb tip shape photo 11.

Fiberglass is hard on blades so use an old one. Making a laminated recurve bow how to tutorial solo custom archery. Be sure to include a well defined front and back line. Longbow forms are usually 1 1 2 thick and recurve forms are 1 3 4 or 2 thick.

Cut the limbs to length on the bandsaw. If you plan to make a lot of bows consider buying a carbide blade. Making a laminated bow is something i have learned to do over the past few years. Here is what it looks like without music and much editing.

Most bows are made with yew but other woods are an option as well. But to kill three stones with one bird and prevent me from having to do a separate build along i m going to show you how you can jazz up your limbs a little. I m going to do spliced limbs. Whether making a recurve or a longbow trace the pattern using an existing bow or make an original.

This could be as easy as taking a stick of wood 36 long 3 4 thick and 1 5 wide cutting laminations out of it and grinding them. Cut out the bow template using a band saw creating a front and back press you will use later to clamp the bow into its shape. Other materials include fibers from trees and animal by products like horns or sinews. Gluing your bow laminations or bow backing is a critical part of the bow building process.

Bow forms are usually made from appropriate sized pieces of plywood laminated together to the correct thickness.