Bamboo Backed Osage Warbow?

[adb]

No, I'm not messin' with yah Del. As you can obviously figure, I don't do horn nocks very often. I mostly do tip overlays, and I don't make the overlay go past the tip of the bow limb, so I lose an inch off each tip when I measure back to cut the string grooves.

[mikekeswick]

Even with overlays there is no need to measure a full inch in off each tip and with proper horn nocks you would only need to 'lose' 1/2 off the whole bow or a 1/4 per tip. Del is spot on. Horn nocks take a little perfecting to get them just right and i've done hundreds of the beggars....

[Pat B]

I would make the bamboo no thicker than 1/8" at the crown at the handle. Most of the strength in the boo in in the closely packed power fibers just below the rind. Shape the outline of the bow on the boo and cut it out. Then thin it to 1/8" at the handle and thin it more as you go towards the tips. You can leave the backing 1/8" its full length also.