Hik backed ERC flatbow?

[Minuteman]

All right . Startin on some ideas I've had for some time now.
 I have two 9/16" thick by 2" wide pieces of Eastern Red Cedar heartwood ,  reasonable grain not perfect.  I  started with two end pieces  cutting off the really bad grain and Z spliced them together with epoxy.
 First question I have is; how long should I make the lamination that goes between the backing and the cedar? The power lam. I've got a piece of black walnut prolly 3/32" thick tapered down to where I can get a good glue joint under the hikree. It started out 8" long and I've lost a little to the sander while tapering.
 If I make it a flat bow with parallel limbs for 2/3 the length then it should taper out right where the limbs start to bend right? Just a little after the fades?
 Then when thats on the belly handle piece tapers to the same point on the belly side? Does that make sense?
 I don't know how much weight I can get out of 9/16" thick limbs. They are pretty wide though.
 I guess i could make it a pyramid bow.....
 Any ideas would be helpful.
 Chris

[koan]

Chris, Auggie and I were just talking bout this..we dont know either , so when you figure it out, let us know. ....Brian

[Hillbilly]

Don't know about the best taper, but I think most people make their power lams about 18" long or so. I'd like to try a hick-backed cedar myself, so you need to work all the bugs out before I start on mine. 

[Pat B]

Chris, Is this going to be similar to the cherry bow at Pappy's last year?     Pat

[Minuteman]

 Pat , I'm not sure exactly what you mean. But I WON'T have a pile of empty beer bottles behind me when I'm tillering this one!
 I just took that one out of the hot box yesterday. I'd forgotten I still had it.
 It may very well turn out like all the other ones though, a buncha splinters at high speed!