Taper Lamination For Recurve

A 0015 taper will loose 1 thousands and so on.

Taper lamination for recurve.

Sold by the pair. The total limb thickness is the sum of all four layers the taper being measured at the butt thick end. Super lam w tip wedge and p lam add 2 00 on lam price is a 001 taper please let us know width in inches and thickness in thousandths of an inch at lam butt as well as taper rate for tapered lams. B onto the lower form.

Approximately 36 x 1. Bow blanks 58 60 62 64 d r longbow. Recurve limb lamination kit includes bo tuff glass and core laminations in your choice of wood type. To make the sleds i cut strips of 150 grit sand paper and taped them down to the top of the mdf board with two sided carpet tape.

Clear glass base price 250 plus actual shipping. Glue the reverse taper strips fig. Kit comes 72 long with bo tuff glass on either side of 1 parallel lamination 72 piece or 36 pairs depending on wood type and 1 tapered lamination 36 pairs. For the take down recurve the wedge isn t included in the limb thickness.

The taper on these strips is just the opposite of the taper on the bow lamination strips and creates a better matched clamping surface. Colored glass base price 230 plus actual shipping. I use several 3 4 x 4 x 38 mdf boards for my lamination sleds one for each taper parallel 001 taper per inch tpi 002 tpi etc. All 1 laminations are 36 long with a 001 per inch taper.

Then add strips of plastic laminate. Use contact cement for an instant bond without clamps. Sold by the pair. Clamp one side fairly tight leaving enough space between the jig and the spindle for your parallel lamination to pass and yet grind away the material necessary to give it a taper.

Butt the skinny end of each strip against the index pin. Take one of your laminations that mic s out to your tolerance in taper and consistency from side to side and place it against your jig. 002 per inch taper looking for a spot to hunt. Recurves the limb thickness is composed of 2 pieces of bo tuff 1 parallel and 1 taper 002.

I recorded this with my iphone and had to do it one handed so cut me some slack. This shows how to make a tapered lamination for a bow. For our 1 piece recurves and t d.