Guys I've got a block of wood that I would love to have made into bow venners but it looks like the veneers would be a shade over 32". Is that long enough to build with or not worth the trouble? Would that be long enough to make a 64" bow (like a one piece longbow for instance) or is some length lost in the building process?
Not a lot of length is lost in the building of glass bows, but about the best you could do with it is a 62.5" - 63" bow, if everything went as well as could be expected.
You could always splice a complimentary colored wood onto it before it's resawn and ground, then you could make the bows whatever length you wanted.
You could use for the belly and do something else on back, like colored glass. Should be able to get a 66" bow that way.
as Al says if you use it on belly only, the riser at around 4'' will give you more length.
Probably be ok in TD limbs though.
on my one piece form I would need 66" minimum to build a 64" hybrid longbow.. I usually glue up a blank 68" long for a 64" bow, then grind/sand the excess off with my belt sander when shaping the limbs. 64" string nock to string nock and plus 3/4" past eack nock = 65 1/2" long total.. (http://i596.photobucket.com/albums/tt46/Robertfishes/bow18march2013a_zps4877c46a.jpg) (http://s596.photobucket.com/user/Robertfishes/media/bow18march2013a_zps4877c46a.jpg.html)