It may be crazy. I know there may be a moisture issue. What about hickory lams and riser with glass. Hickory is all I do on selfbows. Works super if it's perfectly dry. I just cut some maple lams, my first, and I got to thinking what if........
Under glass should work just fine..
I have put purple heart, lacewood, walnut, maple, dymondwood, paduak and yellow heart under glass with no problems. And these are not just veneers.
I also built my first take down recurve out of hickory with no glass.. and it still works today.
So I don't see any problems using it under glass...
Let's see if some one else pops in and has any experience with this!
Here is one I built to a customers requests. All hickory, glass laminated. He was very happy.
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The hickory came from Kenny McKenzie.
thats hickory? beautiful. don
i love the look of hickory. Go for it it bet it looks great