Making Tapered Laminations

To make your lams first grind them all parallel and slightly over in thickness like 010 over.

Making tapered laminations.

First i just bought some tapered laminations from three rivers archery. By michael fortune 197 mar april 2008 issue. Synopsis open up a new range of design possibilities by incorporating tapered curved laminations into your furniture. That means the laminations is 001 in thinner with every inch in length.

Flip it over and grind the other side. I have two recommendations to make your tapered laminations both of which i ve used to make my own laminations for re curves and longbows. I figured a rather simple way to make tapered strips for bow laminations using a hand plane. This is unnecessary but lemme tell you how i make tapered laminations.

Tapers can be pricey and i don t have a belt sander planer or table saw so i wanted a way to make tapered strips with my simple tools. I got the cheapest ones they had and they had a 001 taper. 002 per inch taper. Tapers in 001 per inch 002 per inch or 003 butt thicknesses from 080 to 125.

Use our bow building laminations to build your one of a kind masterpiece longbow. You will be using one of your current laminations as a pattern combined with a parallel lamination and you ll grind the parallel lamination to. Contact us if you need a different thickness or special sizing. Tapered laminations made easy a single jig tapers the plies on the bandsaw and then guides them through the planer.

Then tape the sandpaper to the top of this tapered lamination. The best technique for making these laminations michael fortune. Super lam w tip wedge and p lam add 2 00 on lam price is a 001 taper please let us know width in inches and thickness in thousandths of an inch at lam butt as well as taper rate for tapered lams. Keep flipping it over and grinding alternate sides until it reaches the target thickness.

Put one on the sled and run it through the sander. The first involves using an edge sander or a spindle sander.