New bowyer

[cocie]

Hi everyone.. I'm from Croatia, and new in bow building.  I want to build all wood 66" medium r/d bow, template from swissbow . Materials for now:  american walnut ( 0,05 " ) , maple ( 0,1") , oak ( 0,05 "), and for riser hornbeam.  

In this order :  back :  maple
                oak
                walnut
                belly: maple
Can you help me is this wood suitable for build? Can I use this maple for backing and belly?
Oak and walnut in the middle?
Any suggestions or opinions are welcome...

If someone is from (or near) Croatia, any suggestion where to buy smooth on or similar glue?  For now I try with  UHU 300 endfest..


sorry for bad english and thanks to you all!!!
 

[MoeM]

Hi Miro
The UHU shall work as well as EA-40 does maybe a bit better but more expensive- so I consider It to be the most similar easy available one.
The woodchoosage semms a bit strange to me; usual oak is not know to be good wood for any type of bow and I can`t remember a wood taken for back AND belly except boo and hick. (or yew but splint and core)
If you`d share your progress I`ll follow for sure!

Regards

[LittleBen]

Lighter is better for the core. Oak will work, but walnut will be better.

Maple can be used for back and belly, but it's not the best for either. It's decent for the back though, depending on the belly wood used.

As for backing woods I'd recommend Hickory, White Oak, Bamboo, or maple.

For belly woods I'd recommend Ipe, Osage, Yew, maybe hickory. Alot of the other tropical hardwoods will work (i.e. massaranduba, jatoba, cumaru, zebrawood etc.) but Ipe is generally regarded as king and doesnt cost a ton.  

I use Titebond III for my all wood laminates and it workls well. I don't know if it's available there in croatia but it's cheap here in the US.

[cocie]

Hi, thanks for answers...  if someone is interested in "Characteristics and Availability of Commercially Important Woods "  ( tension / compression)....

[cocie]

link...  
http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplgtr/fpl_gtr190.pdf