Vernier on a red oak board bow.

[Escoffier1974]

Good evening;

Simple question: can you glue a vernier on a red oak board bow?  If so, what can you use?

Thanks,
D

[Sam Harper]

You mean on the back of it?  Not unless you cover the veneer with something like fiberglass cloth and epoxy.  In that case, you can use just about anything.

[JO_EZ]

Really? I thought that veneer backing was one of the many "strange things done in the midnight sun by the men who moil for gold."

I have only used fiber glass drywall tape and brown paper for backing redoak board bows, but that is just because I was too cheap and lazy to go buy veneer. I would have rather used veneer.

How is it different than laminating a 1/8" slat to the back? Is veneer too thin to keep from splintering?

I say try it. If it doesn't work, you can always throw it in the "cre-ma-tor-eum." I am sure Sam McGee wouldn't mind the heat.

Gotta love that Robert Service.

[Sam Harper]

You can't use a veneer by itself for a backing.  The grain is almost always too violated.  What I'm saying is that you can glue a veneer to the back of a bow, then use fiberglass cloth and epoxy as a backing.  When you saturate the fiberglass cloth with epoxy, it becomes transparent, so you can see the veneer through it.

Yup.  Love Robert Service.  :-)