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Offline Knotty

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Re: Purpleheart wood!?
« Reply #30 on: June 22, 2016, 11:21:25 am »
Ah alright, thanks for your reply, appreciate it 👍
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Re: Purpleheart wood!?
« Reply #31 on: June 22, 2016, 11:33:55 am »
Go atleast 1-3/4" wide i would think and get the belly 3/8" thick before glue up
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Re: Purpleheart wood!?
« Reply #32 on: June 22, 2016, 11:36:37 am »
Do you think it could handle higher draw weights with bamboo backing?
I saw a guy here in Brazil that made one out of Purpleheart and backed it with denim , left him with a 50# bow.
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Re: Purpleheart wood!?
« Reply #33 on: June 23, 2016, 01:55:30 am »
I've bamboo backed three purple heart bows and all of them developed terrible compression fissures even though the bows were 6ft and wide. If you back it, rawhide back it or use a softer wood like maple. Don't bamboo back it! In fact, I think rawhide would be about the only thing that wouldn't make it's compression issues worse.
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Re: Purpleheart wood!?
« Reply #34 on: June 23, 2016, 05:23:56 am »
Alright thanks Limbit!
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Re: Purpleheart wood!?
« Reply #35 on: June 23, 2016, 08:21:28 am »
Maplecwill work fine for a backer
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Re: Purpleheart wood!?
« Reply #36 on: June 23, 2016, 11:11:07 am »
Don't have any Maple in Brazil, I'll have to use whatever I can get my hands on..
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