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Title: reduce .020 from wood or glass
Post by: davidt on August 19, 2009, 03:15:00 PM
The last recurve I made had a recipe of two .050 glass-one .050 parr.-one .110 taper. If I want to take out .020 would you recomend to take it from glass or wood. Matbe it makes no difference. Whats your thoughts .I am heading to work the night shift in a hot old paper mill I will check in tomorrow. Thanks David T.
Title: Re: reduce .020 from wood or glass
Post by: davidt on August 19, 2009, 03:17:00 PM
maybe not matbe love that night shift.
Title: Re: reduce .020 from wood or glass
Post by: Trux Turning on August 19, 2009, 04:42:00 PM
I  would decrease the glass. If you are going from a stack of 260 and are wanting a new stack of 240- I would go with either 2- .030's of glass or a .040 and a .030 and then increase the core thickness to make up the difference and reach your 240 mark.
Title: Re: reduce .020 from wood or glass
Post by: kennym on August 19, 2009, 09:56:00 PM
Yep,what Dave said, but if you drop .040 in glass thickness,you might wanna bump the wood core up .005 or so cause glass is a little stiffer than wood per thickness IMO.
Title: Re: reduce .020 from wood or glass
Post by: davidt on August 21, 2009, 01:53:00 PM
thanks guys,I finally found my older binghams cotalog . It had the recipes in it not just thickness. They agree with you . thank you for the help. David T