my bamboo back bamboo belly recurve (photo spam)
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2015 11:06 am
so this is my all bamboo 'horse bow' recurve visual build along
i didn't use power tools, so it was hard work to flatten these as much as possible, a belt sander would have been nice.
i realised halfway through that perhaps my handle was on the wrong side for gluing between the two pieces, so i made the belly into two pieces that butt up against the handle, and added the other small pieces of bamboo to help prevent a break at that point.
i consider this practice for building a horn bow, i found the bamboo an impressively sturdy material, but easy to work
i actually scraped the belly so thin i needed to tiller from the back, the bamboo in tension is thicker overall than the bamboo in compression
the glue lines between these two imperfect surfaces are quite horrible but it works! it's #32 @28 after some set. i think it may go down more with use.
i still need to finish the handle and the tips, but it's working... so i thought i'd share. also i'll take another photo flat on to it to compare the limbs.
i didn't use power tools, so it was hard work to flatten these as much as possible, a belt sander would have been nice.
i realised halfway through that perhaps my handle was on the wrong side for gluing between the two pieces, so i made the belly into two pieces that butt up against the handle, and added the other small pieces of bamboo to help prevent a break at that point.
i consider this practice for building a horn bow, i found the bamboo an impressively sturdy material, but easy to work
i actually scraped the belly so thin i needed to tiller from the back, the bamboo in tension is thicker overall than the bamboo in compression
the glue lines between these two imperfect surfaces are quite horrible but it works! it's #32 @28 after some set. i think it may go down more with use.
i still need to finish the handle and the tips, but it's working... so i thought i'd share. also i'll take another photo flat on to it to compare the limbs.