High grade action boo!

[Mad Max]

James Parker had some that maple/ walnut ? action wood he got from Humming bird bows with all the inventory and forms.

[Kirkll]

James Parker had some that maple/ walnut ? action wood he got from Humming bird bows with all the inventory and forms.

That was a great combo for action wood lay ups. We were playing with it building hot rod bows years ago.

[Mad Max]

 

[BigJim]

I am selling and using the moso bamboo also. I was offered the choice of wider and narrower laminates and paid extra for the narrow laminates. No finish or grooves to mill off of mine either.
BigJim

[Crooked Stic]

 

[Kirkll]

This is beginning to tick me off a bit here....First I've got TG hall of fame bowyer, and now another sponsor / bowyer posting on an advertisement thread of mine trying to steer business away. 

  What the hell is going on here?

[BigJim]

My reply was not to drive business away from you.. You stated that you couldn't find what you were looking for until this flooring and it was limited. Also that there was very little yield due to tenon's and locks.
There's very little money to be made in bamboo sales anyway.
BigJim

[Kirkll]

Ok Jim.... So it's alright with you that i post i also have some beautiful black and white ebony for sale on your advertisement for B&W ebony thread?     Not!....  Poor form i'd say...

The whole point of this thread for me was to point out this very thin laminated bamboo is excellent quality, and i wanted to share it with other bowyers. So i bought a bunch of it in anticipation of doing just that. You boys are not helping with that....  Poor form...

[Mad Max]

 

 
 

[onetone]

Hey Kirk, you mentioned you had to reduce the stack height with that new boo, have you used enough to have a general idea of how much less the stack has to be maintain a target DW?

[Kirkll]

No I haven’t really tested anything on finished limbs at all, and only I’ve only laid up a couple sets of limbs now with it myself. Other than bench deflection tests with a 4 ounce weight compared to  the Fossilized material, that’s as far as I’ve gone.

That fossilized stuff was the material that needed a stack reduction. I went from .060 lams to .040 to get them closer to the same weight and deflection. I seriously doubt that the two carbonized products side by side, both being moso bamboo, and the only difference being thinner lams will have a significant impact on stack height.  But…. After milling a bunch of it it’s very consistent.

I did find a couple boards in the last case that had slightly thicker lams that I didn’t notice until after I ripped them into strips, but they were all consistent quality in material.

Like big Jim said earlier, there isn’t any money to be made from selling bamboo. I was just excited about this outstanding material and wanted to share it with some others.      Kirk

[onetone]

Thanks for the info 

[Kirkll]

BTW..... I still have some of these fossilized lams already ripped and in bundles of 20 that i'll part with if anyone is interested in playing with it.     

I also found another bundle of Black Myrtle wood lams that are rough cut through the table saw if someone wants them for veneer stock.


Kirk