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Offline snedeker

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Tri-lam bamboo bulletwood ipe R/D
« on: September 04, 2009, 11:48:24 am »
This tri-lam was made from a 5/16 bulletwood (Massaranduba) core provided to me by Matt Simpson (Huntersim), boo strip, and a 1/8 strip of ipe.  I pretapered the bulletwood, glued to boo in form, tillered, added belly ipe strip, etc.  It is 63# ntn, 50# at 28", 1 1/8 inch wide at fades.  Has a foot long 1/8 piece of goncalo alves in center as power lam, and handle built of thin gonacalo and ipe stips.  Bocote tip overlays in tribute to David Knight.  Hemp grip wrap and deco limb wraps.  Drawn by my son.  TB3 glue used on all glue-ups. Tru-oil finish.  I should have got it down lighter in draw weight before putting the ipe strip on the belly, cause I had to take a lot of ipe off - ended up a little lighter than the goal of 58-60, but the  lad pulls around 50 so it will be good for him. Great shooting bow. 

Alreay have another one onderway, thins time a 4-lam with 1/8 stirps of BL and ipe scraps as core to get ipe belly. 

Dave

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Offline DanaM

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Re: Tri-lam bamboo bulletwood ipe R/D
« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2009, 12:00:14 pm »
Thats a beauty Dave :)
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Re: Tri-lam bamboo bulletwood ipe R/D
« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2009, 12:02:12 pm »
love the profile.. bet it shoots sweet..
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Re: Tri-lam bamboo bulletwood ipe R/D
« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2009, 12:36:00 pm »
Nice bow, Dave and the tiller looks good.  Good work as always.
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Offline PeteC

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Re: Tri-lam bamboo bulletwood ipe R/D
« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2009, 01:06:19 pm »
Nice bow Dave!! Do you degrease all laminations before glue-up with TB3?  God Bless
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Offline snedeker

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Re: Tri-lam bamboo bulletwood ipe R/D
« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2009, 01:16:50 pm »
Pete, I give everything a quick but hard wipe with thinner.

Dave
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Re: Tri-lam bamboo bulletwood ipe R/D
« Reply #6 on: September 05, 2009, 12:52:19 am »
Looks good Dave. I too really like this type of outer limb profile as well...
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Offline medicinewheel

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Re: Tri-lam bamboo bulletwood ipe R/D
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2009, 04:07:05 am »
Looking good!
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Re: Tri-lam bamboo bulletwood ipe R/D
« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2009, 12:28:18 pm »
Great Bow, Dave!! You've got to be proud of this one 8). Super candidate for Sept Laminate BOM fun, too.
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Offline snedeker

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Re: Tri-lam bamboo bulletwood ipe R/D
« Reply #9 on: September 06, 2009, 03:06:44 pm »
Couple buddie and me out splitting bulletwood.  Nice clean split, eh?

Dave :o

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Re: Tri-lam bamboo bulletwood ipe R/D
« Reply #10 on: September 06, 2009, 03:11:56 pm »
cool logs
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Offline macbow

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Re: Tri-lam bamboo bulletwood ipe R/D
« Reply #11 on: September 06, 2009, 09:10:15 pm »
Dave, When you tillered the bamboo and bullet wood did you just work the sides to keep the belly flat for the Ipe glue up?
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Offline snedeker

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Re: Tri-lam bamboo bulletwood ipe R/D
« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2009, 10:37:51 am »
I tillered the belly, carrefully keeping it flat.  Sanded it with a block
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Offline Jesse

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Re: Tri-lam bamboo bulletwood ipe R/D
« Reply #13 on: September 07, 2009, 12:10:08 pm »
cool bow. I like the cordage wrap as well. That must have been hard work splitting that big log out in that hot jungle. ;D
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Offline snedeker

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Re: Tri-lam bamboo bulletwood ipe R/D
« Reply #14 on: September 08, 2009, 09:32:24 am »
I set it up with about 1.5 inch reflex at the tips and it settled at 1 inch deflex
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