I have a beautiful piece of material with a snake skin print. Has anyone used a piece of cloth under clear glass and are there any tips I could use. How would cloth effect the stack thickness?
Ive seen Swissbow do this on a couple of his bows and it worked well for him. Lets see if he chimes in here.
Hi James, as Brad mentioned I have done some recurves with a linen with a camo print under the glass.
(http://i861.photobucket.com/albums/ab173/07Hawaii/Caroline%20Safari/6-1.jpg)
There you can find more pictures here in the 'recurves' section
http://www.swissbow.com/
It added about 0.2 mm ( 0.008" ) to the stack, but I guess that depends also on the thickness of the material you want to glue into the bow. I can't tell you how much it has an influence on the performance of the bow, because I haven't done the same bow without it. But I think it will probaely slow done the bow a bit. Although the last one I did was a real good shooter with the appropriate arrows.
When you laminate it into the bow make sure that the linen is completely soaked with epoxy. You will need a lot more epoxy than usual, so better be prepared and mix enough of it. A lot of it will be squeced out of the bow when you press it into the form but I just whiped it off to prevent glueing the form to the table.
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Andy
Andy,
Thanks for the info. The bow you have pictured is the one that gave me the idea. Great looking bow and very nice work. All the guys on here have been so helpful, wanna thank all of you again.............James