Hi guys I'm building a classic recurve with static tips (hopefully) I'm trying to keep it an inch and a half wide. I have two questions,
1. Do you guys taper your laminations on recurves? I have built a lot of longbows but only one recurve and I used parallel Lams only.
2. I feel like trying to put in tip wedges will be tough one fairly tight recurve tip. Could I get away with gluing a overlay on the belly with a string grooves in it kinda like a mild grumley style? Or will they pop off?
Thanks
I made several static recurves
make your static recurve 2-1/2" radius (that in itself will make it static), NO wedge needed. it will bend just a little, like 3/16"with a underlay on it just for the string groove. As long as you sand and use smooth-on, it wont pop off.
Back of the bow on the form, or it wont bend into the form radius ;)
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Use a .002 stack taper and the standard recurve limb width taper (1-3/4" wide), just narrow the width lines in 1/8" for a 1-1/2" bow, and use Stabil-Kore next to the belly glass.
That will fix you up :thumbsup:
56"
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62"
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58"
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Great thanks for the in depth response! I already made my form unfortunately and my curves are much bigger than two and a half inches! :knothead:
Also if you are using stabilcore, do you adjust your stack to account for it?
what is the radius?
You can put wedges on the belly, and if it's bending put one one the back too :bigsmyl:
Yes on stable-kore
The radiuses were 8 inches but I just overhauled the form and now they are more like 4.5-5". Should that be tight enough? They look pretty tight
4.5-5 going to bend.
To be a stacit recurve it need to be smaller, my 2 cents
Hmm ok I like the look of the curves now so maybe I'll do what you suggested and put overlays on belly and even the back of needed