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Offline atkken

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TB and wood
« on: June 29, 2009, 10:24:00 AM »
How far can a longbow design be taken with these materials?
R/D,multi lams?
Thanks
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Offline Dano

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Re: TB and wood
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2009, 07:09:00 PM »
I'd say the sky's the limit, I have not had TB fail me yet.
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Re: TB and wood
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2009, 11:27:00 PM »
I've never had a TB failure either.
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Offline Springbuck

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Re: TB and wood
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2009, 09:02:00 PM »
Dry the lams, put on a sizing coat before glue up and mate the surfaces well, and that stuff is VERY strong.
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Offline Hermann From Bavaria

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Re: TB and wood
« Reply #4 on: July 20, 2009, 01:54:00 PM »
excuse me for dumb questioning, but whats tb?
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Re: TB and wood
« Reply #5 on: July 20, 2009, 03:25:00 PM »
Hermann, TB is Tite-Bond glue. It is a common yellow carpenters glue. You will see it posted as TBI, TBII, and TBIII. The first two are water resistant after drying and TBIII is water proof after drying
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Offline Hermann From Bavaria

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Re: TB and wood
« Reply #6 on: July 21, 2009, 03:41:00 AM »
thank alot pat!
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Offline Bjorn

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Re: TB and wood
« Reply #7 on: July 26, 2009, 02:10:00 AM »
The strength of TB is just amazing if your surfaces mate reasonably well-if not you will need to adjust them, or mix up some epoxy.
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Offline Roy Steele

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Re: TB and wood
« Reply #8 on: July 26, 2009, 06:17:00 AM »
I've used TB,TB2,TB3 alot and its always heald on what ever.
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Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: TB and wood
« Reply #9 on: July 26, 2009, 09:30:00 AM »
A friend brought a BBO blank he bought to my shop a few weeks ago. We carefully tillered it and just had to drop about 10 lbs of poundage off to finish the bow. He was dropping poundage when the glued on handle failed all the way back to the spliced limbs. The splice came apart and the bow was toast. The splice was pretty short, about half as long as I make them, the handle failure started the bows destruction.

Everything appeared to have been glued with TB.

I have had TB failures early on in my bowmaking journey so I switched to Urac. My early TB failures were probably the result of my poorly constructed bows rather than any problem with the glue itself.
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