BBQ bow revisited

[wazabodark]

Okay. So I have this nightmare still laying around in my garage. Mostly because I think I might still be able to save it.    my big question at this point is whether or not I'm going to be able to separate the ipe from the red oak. It's glued on with TB3. Someone suggested heat on the original thread. I'm also wondering if there's not some type of sol ent I could use that wouldn't stain the wood. Any suggestions?

[Pat B]

TBIII releases at 150 deg (F). I've removed backing strips by heating at the tip until I can get a knife or wood chisel in the glue joint. Worked down the limb heating and separating until I got to the handle then started at the other tip and do the same. Take it slow and easy and it will separate without any other damage.

[wazabodark]

Thanks, Pat. Next question is about the possibility of making a trilam as fujimo suggested on the original thread. If I were to plane the oak down to a uniform thickness I could get about 3/8" thickness. I'd like to back that with pecan and belly with ipe. The backing I would make myself from a stave that I've already cut another bow out of. Would quarter sawn be ok? How thick? And an ipe belly. How thick there?

[takefive]

Quarter sawn for your backing is fine as long as the grain is good and straight.  I've never used oak for the core, or ipe at all for that matter, but I can give you the widths from a hickory/cherry/osage tri-lam I made that I really like.  I made the hickory back and cherry core both 1/8" at the center and tapered them to 1/16" from just past the fades.  The osage belly was 5/16".  Just had to do a little rasping to get the tiller right.  It's 66" tip to tip, 1 3/8" at the fades and 47# DW.  Hope this helps and good luck.