Will This Take Down Lam Stack Work

[NRudder]

62" Take Down with Binghams TD riser and 1 3/4 limbs

Will this lam stack work?

UL Clear Glass                           0.030"
Veneer (Grey Action wood)                0.020"
action boo .09" taper (taper of 0.002")  0.070"
red coretuff                             0.030"

wedge 8.25"

red coretuff                             0.030"
parallel action boo                      0.050"
UL Black Glass                           0.040"  

total stack of 0.270" for a target aroound 60 pounds


for my .02" veneer i would like to have it look somewhat like this but i would like a couple BRIGHT RED stripes through my grey action-wood (end grain)  limb.

 

is it possible to make to make 2 red strips through my limbs using red Phenolic??


any help is much appreciated!!!

[BrushWolf]

One thing I noticed is your taper. In the binghams design the taper goes on the bottom of the stack.       Glass                                            veneer                                           parallel                                         coretuff                                         wedge                                            coretuff                                         taper                                            glass                                                                                              Other than that I havent used any coretuff. I did put uni weft in some limbs but only one strip.

[bjansen]

The double red coretufff will really stiffen up your limb I think...and probably add some unneeded weight.  If you want a nice red surrounding to your wedge you can make a little p lam out of coretuff and it will fade into your other core-tuff.  I did that a few times with good results

 

 

[NRudder]

" little p lam out of coretuff and it will fade into your other core-tuff"   can you elaborate on this for me?

what should i do?

[bjansen]

In those pics above (you can see it best in the black riser bow), I have a full length strip of core-tuff in the bow in front of the 17" riser.  On the backside of the riser, I cut a 19" strip of core-tuff, tapered both ends down to nothing  and then glued that in behind  the riser.  Then you have a strip of red core-tuff surrounding the riser and red strips run together in the lam stack down to one strip.

[NRudder]

to taper the core tuff out to nothing would i need a sled, is this possible with something other than a sled. If no is there any way to make a sled out of wood?

[bjansen]

I taper them all by hand. Just use a backer block and a spindle sander/ridgid sander.  It doesn't take much to go from .030 to nothing. Give it a try sometime.

[bjansen]

It only needs a couple inches of taper.