hickory backed vertical trilam (full draw added)

[macbow]

Very nice Ken. How thick etc. was the strip of IPE
Ron

[cracker]

Very cool I like it a lot.Ronnie

[mullet]

 Neat bow, Ken. I wonder if the strip of ipe helped the hickory from taking a lot of "set" like it usually does.

[ken75]

thanks macbow , the ipe is 1/2 wide by 1/4 thinck , same with the hard maple
thanks Ronnie
thanks Eddie, i think ipe helps in any combo. its some dang good belly wood.

[Keenan]

Very nice bow Ken. Love what your doing with the tri lams, That full draw pic is great

[ken75]

thanks Keenan !

[oneeye]

Thats pretty.

[ken75]

thanks Scott, got one of the osage cores glued up and im finishing today i hope

[ohma]

great looking bow and i to like the art work on the back.

[dragonman]

great looking bow, I never saw a lam like that before, nice work, it looks like the ipe is doing its job but can you tell  me your reasoning for doing the lam this way around???

[ken75]

thanks Ohma
Dragonman, the best way i can explain it is Rich and i talk often about possabilites and theories and performance . this design has been done elsewhere but i hadnt seen it and decided to try it as i did on this one and the mollle a couple weeks ago. the idea was to pair to similar woods (strong in compression) but differing in color and use them to their best potential . the ipe being the strongest needed to be center and carry most of the workload . hard maple although great in compression was lighter than the ipe and offered some reduction in mass.from all i can tell this is a sound design and i havent seen any cons with the glue joints or bending the vertical lams. any string follow with these two bows is gone in a matter of minutes after unstringing them.hope this helps . it was just a fun expirement

[jturkey]

thanks Ohma
Dragonman, the best way i can explain it is Rich and i talk often about possabilites and theories and performance . this design has been done elsewhere but i hadnt seen it and decided to try it as i did on this one and the mollle a couple weeks ago. the idea was to pair to similar woods (strong in compression) but differing in color and use them to their best potential . the ipe being the strongest needed to be center and carry most of the workload . hard maple although great in compression was lighter than the ipe and offered some reduction in mass.from all i can tell this is a sound design and i havent seen any cons with the glue joints or bending the vertical lams. any string follow with these two bows is gone in a matter of minutes after unstringing them.hope this helps . it was just a fun expirement

if i was looking into this with maple being one of the woods what would you say would be a good choice for the middle strip if ipe is not an option for certain reasons. maybe walnut or oak or hickory just trying to figure out my next project.

[Pappy]

Great looking bow,love the paint job and the tiller looks good also.Nice work. Bet it will spit an arrow.    
   Pappy

[nativenoobowyer86]

Thats a great looking bow! vertical lams had never occured to me.
Do you think a soft backing material would work on something like this? maybe rawhide or canvas?

[ken75]

JT if i was going to do a similar project without ipe i would look for compression strong woods with color contrast to maple . like black cherry, beefwood, cedar ,osage and even black walnut although litghter in weight is good in compression.
thank you Pappy
native i think rawhide would be fine for a backing on this design . let me know how it turns out