Flipping tips on bamboo backed trilam

[Echatham]

Whats the  best way to flip the tips? Im thinkin dry heat on core and belly lams and let the bamboo conform to them during glue up.  Its gonna be r/d profile, but i wanna add a little extra flip cause i like the feel with reduced string angle at full draw... Less stacking.

[Roy from Pa]

You got it...

[Echatham]

Thanks roy.  thats how you do it i take it?

[Roy from Pa]

Exactly...

[Zradix]

What core did you choose Eric?...maple?

[Roy from Pa]

Don't tell him, Eric..  

[Zradix]

[Zradix]

[Roy from Pa]

       

[Echatham]

osage    

[Zradix]

cool!
Good luck!

I love osage.

[LittleBen]

FWIW I don't do any heat bending before glue up and I can easily turn a tri-lam into a recurve.

I think the reason is that I'm using a solid form that I clamp the lams down onto as opposed to the centerpost, midlimb post, and tip post setup ... Just a thought.

I do like the 5 post setup though and I actually have a setup like that that mounts to the flat side of my form too if I wanna free-ball it a bit more.

[Echatham]

i thought about that too, but i already have the 5 post setup

[Pat B]

Dean Torges' DVD, "Stalking the Bamboo Backed Bow" show how he does it with the 5 post form he uses.

[LittleBen]

I really need to get some of Torges' books / DVDs

[Roy from Pa]

Yes Ben a caul would be the same as me flipping the tips prior to glue up. Dean's form for a recurve is 5 posts, but more like a caul on the limb tips.

[LittleBen]

I see. That makes sense.