Wacky Wood Question

[KenH]

Ok... we know that wood only provides about 12% of the strength of a wood-glass laminate bow...

The other day I got some beautiful lams from Troy breeding, that came "wrapped" between strips of some of the prettiest dead-straight grain pine that I've seen in dog's years.  

Now I'm a fella who hates to waste wood...  Is there any reason (speak now or forever hold your piece)  that I can't marry that pine between two conventional lams and make a reasonably decent shooting bow.  I'm not talking "war weight", just a 30# "plinking" bow...

[Pat B]

You could build some nice arrows with it.

[JamesV]

I have built several good shooters using pine for the core. I was afraid that the heat box would cause the rosin to cook out of the pine so I let the epoxy air dry for 24 hrs with no problems.

[KenH]

Thanks, James.  That's what I was hoping to hear. I don't use a heat box anyway -- don't need it in south Florida!

Thanx but nothanx, Pat.  Much too thin to slice into arrows and gluing them up from pieces would be a pain....