bow veneer length?

[Biathlonman]

Guys I've got a block of wood that I would love to have made into bow venners but it looks like the veneers would be a shade over 32".  Is that long enough to build with or not worth the trouble?  Would that be long enough to make a 64" bow (like a one piece longbow for instance) or is some length lost in the building process?

[Bowjunkie]

Not a lot of length is lost in the building of glass bows, but about the best you could do with it is a 62.5" - 63" bow, if everything went as well as could be expected.

You could always splice a complimentary colored wood onto it before it's resawn and ground, then you could make the bows whatever length you wanted.

[Al Dean]

You could use for the belly and do something else on back, like colored glass.  Should be able to get a 66" bow that way.

[bigbob2]

as Al says if you use it on belly only, the riser at around 4'' will give you more length.

[Crooked Stic]

Probably be ok in TD limbs though.

[Robertfishes]

on my one piece form I would need 66" minimum to build a 64" hybrid longbow.. I usually glue up a blank 68" long for a 64" bow, then grind/sand the excess off with my belt sander when shaping the limbs. 64" string nock to string nock and plus 3/4" past eack nock = 65 1/2" long total..