To build a bow you need to start with good material.
Bamboo flooring for bow backing.
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.
I think it could go quite well with a bamboo backing to help hold it together.
Works with de crowned wood.
Add strength durability and performance.
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.
Bamboo backing your bow can greatly improve the strength durability and performance of the bow.
Bowing or warping of floor boards can occur for several reasons.
If water has seeped into the boards they may swell against one another which can cause the bow.
The 71 inch flattened bamboo backing strip is an ideal option for backing traditional bows with a grain that is less than perfect.
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.
How to fix bowed floors.
Bamboo possesses incredibly strong tension and a striking look making it a great choice for backing your medieval bow.
Bamboo flooring makes a great bow if backed with raw bamboo.
They re quieter than any other bow i ve made and there s just something about the way they feel when you draw them and shoot them that s hard to describe.
Ipe can be used on the belly and it s a great choice too.
There s a smoothness about them.
The only bad thing i have to say about bamboo bows is.
I prepare the bamboo backing pretty much the same way i do on the bamboo backed ipe build along i e.
Very nice bamboo for backing bows.
I wouldn t back a bow with boo flooring or ipe.
72 x 2 approximately.
Tom turgeon is living a 12 year old s dream.
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.
If i was building a backed bow then it needs to be reg bamboo sinew cloth paper or some other sort of material.
All bamboo bows are my personal favourite.
There were just two things i did differently.
Your 60 inch bow would have probably worked well at 30 inch draw.
These planed bamboo strips are heat tempered in a commercial convec.
3rivers offers bow backing strips limb laminations riser blanks bamboo fiberglass and even snakeskins.