Just an Idea?

[Knawbone]

Just an Idea here. Has anyone ever tried making a laminated bow by stepping the laminations as well as tapering them. Similar to the way leaf springs are made. Back of bow would obviously be one continuous lam, but the belly would step. I'm assuming this design would suffer compression issues, but thought I'd throw it out there for comment.

[Bowjunkie]

Why would you?

Is there a single benefit?

[Knawbone]

I wouldn't neccesarilly., just food for thought Bowjunkie.

[vanillabear?]

[Knawbone]

Yes, like a bundle bow only with laminations.

[MoeM]

Croosbow bows where sometimes made this way- bad efficency because of the friction between the moving layers.
Laminated not any advantages towards a sandwiched core anyway.
But the bow shown in "Avatar" has smth. similar, a shorter limbset pushes the mainlimbs- like a "reverse penobscot" maybe this would be a thing to start with...