home made composite

[Jerry Potts]

Fibreglass facing and backing makes them more stable, and drastically reduces breaking.

[rollingrock]

orsage with bamboo backing ... looks and performs awesome

This is a custom made Mongolian recurve laminated with bamboo and orsage. It's made here by a true bower. Extremely fast and quiet.

[Monashee]

Nice bow . Who made it , specs ? What type of release do you use ?

This is a custom made Mongolian recurve laminated with bamboo and orsage. It's made here by a true bower. Extremely fast and quiet.

[rollingrock]

Nice bow . Who made it , specs ? What type of release do you use ?

Alex Lee from Burnaby designed and crafted this line. Here is another one he made for an Asian client. His bows can be used in all weather conditions, but this one wasn't designed for hunting if you look at the riser. But it won't be difficult for him to mod it to fit for hunting. The release....

This bow is 50" stringed, 48# at 28". It shoots really smooth and different from typical North American style recurve. Chrono test showed that the arrow speed was at par with my Black Widow.

[rollingrock]

Another one in the same line, still designed for an Asian traditional archer. This one had a slight mod which made shooting even better. Similar specs with the above one.

[Bowzone_Mikey]

Those are sweet Bows!!!!!
True Works of art

[greybark]

Hey Rollingrock, those are very sweet looking bows . I like how the Bowyer uses highly figured Bacote and Cocobola in the risers . I beleive the limb veneers in the last pic are Cocobolo and give great character to the beautiful lines of the bow .
PM sent .
Cheers

[Gateholio]

Can't you ust get a sheet of maple plywood, cut it in strips, laminate together and shape it? Kinda a joke, but kinda serious. Wouldn't that work ?

[Drillbit]

If it helps, I have one of those presses with the firehose in it for compression while glueing ( I assume). I'm obviously not using it, cause I really don't know how, but I could put it on the bus for you to use. One day when you're done with it, you could send it back up north somehow, no hurry.

PM me if that would help out with your project, and if you want to use it.

[biggyun68]

If you can get your hands on Pacific Yew (not uncommon around Whistler) it is very good and traditional wood species for bows.