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Offline Knoll

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Re: White Oaked back IPE bendy handle dimensions?
« Reply #15 on: November 06, 2014, 09:48:49 pm »
Quote from: PatM on November 06, 2014, 10:55:37 am
You can glue on levers with an increased angle.
I've used 4estTrekker's glue-on recurve template on several of latest bows.  Recently started thinking .... what if another thickness of wood were added thereby being able to increase angle.
So, thanks for the info!
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Re: White Oaked back IPE - will my dimensions work?
« Reply #16 on: November 06, 2014, 10:37:21 pm »
That template can have the angle doubled. 
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Re: White Oaked back IPE - will my dimensions work?
« Reply #17 on: November 07, 2014, 07:37:46 am »
If you taper your lams prior to glue-up you can easily bend it into a reflexed outer limb. The other option if you want to actually recurve the outer limbs is to cut kerfs into the ipe lam and then glue in thin pieces of wood the same thickness as the saw cuts. You can get really sharp recurves this way - even with ipe!  ;)
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