Well, an interesting thing happend today.
I have a jigsaw table that I built for my Bosch jigsaw and thought I`d use it to thin down the ipe.
When I got to the middle of the board, I noticed it cut it fairly well (for a jig saw) so
I decided to go on and try to rip the board.
Long story short- I ended up with 2 staves of ipe, each one 1/2" thick.
Guess I can make 2 bows after all (just need to find something to back the second one).
I`ll never think the same about jigsaws.....