The best technique for making these laminations michael fortune.
Making tapered laminations.
First i just bought some tapered laminations from three rivers archery.
This is unnecessary but lemme tell you how i make tapered laminations.
To make your lams first grind them all parallel and slightly over in thickness like 010 over.
Tapers in 001 per inch 002 per inch or 003 butt thicknesses from 080 to 125.
Super lam w tip wedge and p lam add 2 00 on lam price is a 001 taper please let us know width in inches and thickness in thousandths of an inch at lam butt as well as taper rate for tapered lams.
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The first involves using an edge sander or a spindle sander.
Keep flipping it over and grinding alternate sides until it reaches the target thickness.
Flip it over and grind the other side.
I have two recommendations to make your tapered laminations both of which i ve used to make my own laminations for re curves and longbows.
Tapered laminations made easy a single jig tapers the plies on the bandsaw and then guides them through the planer.
The following is the procedure i worked out for making a jig to produce tapered strips.
I figured a rather simple way to make tapered strips for bow laminations using a hand plane.
002 per inch taper.
Actionboo core laminations tapered quantity.
Tapers can be pricey and i don t have a belt sander planer or table saw so i wanted a way to make tapered strips with my simple tools.
Put one on the sled and run it through the sander.
I got the cheapest ones they had and they had a 001 taper.
You will be using one of your current laminations as a pattern combined with a parallel lamination and you ll grind the parallel lamination to.
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Then tape the sandpaper to the top of this tapered lamination.