more about bow staves
After asking arounf about good materials for making bows and someone reccommended that I use bamboo as a light, strong and flexible building material. I have some more questions, I plan on making a Yumi to go with a suit of Samurai armor I am also working on, and I plan on using bamboo for the back and belly with a good hard wood for the core. Can anyone give me an advice as to what a good wood for making bow core is? also, if I construct a bow in this manner, how should I recurve the tips? Should I recurve the wood and bamboo seprately or as a single unit when everything has been glued together?
hi
I?m not so familiar with Yumi-bows, but I?ve done some other Asiatic-type bamboo-bows.
I would use a very thin slat of maple as the core-wood, due to its glueing capablities. If you want a sharp recurve join it like a siyah to the bow, otherwise its better to bend the bamboo and core before the glueing.
Michael
I?m not so familiar with Yumi-bows, but I?ve done some other Asiatic-type bamboo-bows.
I would use a very thin slat of maple as the core-wood, due to its glueing capablities. If you want a sharp recurve join it like a siyah to the bow, otherwise its better to bend the bamboo and core before the glueing.
Michael
The person to ask is Jaap Koppedreyer, who makes yumis professionally. He doesn't come online much, but you can email him at [email protected] .