By michael fortune 197 mar april 2008 issue.
Making tapered laminations.
002 per inch taper.
Tapers can be pricey and i don t have a belt sander planer or table saw so i wanted a way to make tapered strips with my simple tools.
You will be using one of your current laminations as a pattern combined with a parallel lamination and you ll grind the parallel lamination to.
I figured a rather simple way to make tapered strips for bow laminations using a hand plane.
First i just bought some tapered laminations from three rivers archery.
I got the cheapest ones they had and they had a 001 taper.
The best technique for making these laminations michael fortune.
Tapers in 001 per inch 002 per inch or 003 butt thicknesses from 080 to 125.
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That means the laminations is 001 in thinner with every inch in length.
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I have two recommendations to make your tapered laminations both of which i ve used to make my own laminations for re curves and longbows.
Keep flipping it over and grinding alternate sides until it reaches the target thickness.
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The following is the procedure i worked out for making a jig to produce tapered strips.
Put one on the sled and run it through the sander.
The first involves using an edge sander or a spindle sander.
Tapered laminations made easy a single jig tapers the plies on the bandsaw and then guides them through the planer.
This is unnecessary but lemme tell you how i make tapered laminations.
To make your lams first grind them all parallel and slightly over in thickness like 010 over.