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Offline DaveMac

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Re: ipe glue up advice please
« Reply #30 on: August 06, 2015, 05:26:23 am »
It could be sapele often sold as a mahogany lookalike but its heavier with more interlocked grain. According to the numbers on the wood database it should make a bow wood, but I've done multiple searches and am yet to fine it actually used so maybe its not great in practise.
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« Reply #31 on: August 06, 2015, 07:38:13 am »
Go pick up a cheap maple board from one of the big box stores or local lumber yard/saw mill. Maples prob one of the best if not the best wood for cores..makes great backers too. N it should be plentiful and found most anywhere in the u.s.a.
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« Reply #32 on: August 06, 2015, 08:33:07 am »
Yes it's probably sapele. It 'should' work as corewood but i'd choose maple every day.
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« Reply #33 on: August 06, 2015, 08:36:46 am »
I've had a padauk core fail along almost the full length of a bow.....you can't use anything for a core  ;)
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Re: ipe glue up advice please
« Reply #34 on: August 06, 2015, 09:36:25 am »
I bet maple would look very nice. I will see if I can find a board.
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Re: ipe glue up advice please
« Reply #35 on: August 06, 2015, 09:50:47 am »
Quote from: sleek on August 06, 2015, 09:36:25 am
I bet maple would look very nice. I will see if I can find a board.
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Re: ipe glue up advice please
« Reply #36 on: August 07, 2015, 09:00:49 pm »
With home depot being 40 miles from me and no lumber yard wiling to sell a maple board for reasonable price I went with what I already got. Tomorrow I will unwrap and see what we got. This shape was difficult with so few clamps. I hope the glue line is good. Its 70" long right now. Gonna tiller it down to 45@28 and keep piking and retillering it until its has 1.5" set or breaks.
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« Reply #37 on: August 07, 2015, 09:01:57 pm »
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Re: ipe glue up advice please
« Reply #38 on: August 08, 2015, 02:25:20 pm »
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« Reply #39 on: August 08, 2015, 02:26:21 pm »
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« Reply #40 on: August 08, 2015, 02:27:51 pm »
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Re: ipe glue up advice please
« Reply #41 on: August 08, 2015, 02:34:07 pm »
There were several problem glue line spots but on profiling most came out. Now there are one or two im not very happy with, one specifically on the tip area but that doesn't bend so fingers crossed.  I took it down to 64".  The back is trapped to allow the bamboo to feather into the wider belly. I hope that doesnt become a problem it was 1" wide and now 3/4" wide.  It has 2.5" reflex, 1/4" deflex. I wish I had more deflex but my method was very...... unscientific,  to say the least. Im hoping on the high end of things for 50#@28, but really, id just like it to hold together. 
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Re: ipe glue up advice please
« Reply #42 on: August 08, 2015, 03:43:28 pm »
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,53561.0.html

My biggest problem is I never tillered a bow with this profile so I am relying heavily on Marc s thread linked above for proper tiller profile.
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Re: ipe glue up advice please( glue up #1 now tillering )
« Reply #43 on: August 08, 2015, 10:34:25 pm »
I dont think that was ipe. It just went soft and colapsed. It was a little out of tiller but I was only pulling maybe 20# at 18 when it went.
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« Reply #44 on: August 08, 2015, 10:36:03 pm »
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