Ok... we know that wood only provides about 12% of the strength of a wood-glass laminate bow...
The other day I got some beautiful lams from Troy breeding, that came "wrapped" between strips of some of the prettiest dead-straight grain pine that I've seen in dog's years.
Now I'm a fella who hates to waste wood... Is there any reason (speak now or forever hold your piece) that I can't marry that pine between two conventional lams and make a reasonably decent shooting bow. I'm not talking "war weight", just a 30# "plinking" bow...
You could build some nice arrows with it.
I have built several good shooters using pine for the core. I was afraid that the heat box would cause the rosin to cook out of the pine so I let the epoxy air dry for 24 hrs with no problems.
Thanks, James. That's what I was hoping to hear. I don't use a heat box anyway -- don't need it in south Florida!
Thanx but nothanx, Pat. Much too thin to slice into arrows and gluing them up from pieces would be a pain....