Can Black Walnut make a bow if it is laminated with a thin Maple back on it? If you have any advice please let me know
Are you talking about a laminated riser or limbs and if limbs will you be using glass?
Hard maple is supposed to work good for backing lighter woods like cherry, walnut, etc. Never tried it though, I've always used hickory.
Savage. It's a walnut board that looks good but I am going to strip it in to 1" by 3" boards then back it with maple
I built my wife a walnut bow backed with hickory. The limb design was too narrow for the walnut I used and it developed frets and a lot of set. I think if you use 1 1/4-1 1/5 wide limbs and tiller the bow correctly it will work fine.
James.....................
Thanks guys