Making A Laminated Recurve Bow

A recurve bow gives a traditional bow the ability to propel arrows further and with more power than a traditional bow.

Making a laminated recurve bow.

58 40 lbs at 28 halla bowyer. While it takes skill and years practice to make a perfect recurve bow these steps will help get you started. Unlike the c clamp and rubber band forms the firehose form requires two pieces a top and a bottom that fit together and the bow goes between them. The first step in bow building is to make the form for gluing the bow laminations.

The egyptian scythian and assyrian people had been making laminate bows out of combinations of wood horn and. Traditional composite bows are normally not included although their construction with horn wood and sinew might bring them within the above definition. I have two problems with the firehose method though. This makes the arrow go farther.

It s also much quicker to glue a bow up with that method. The fibreglass however takes on the load of carrying the maximum amount of load while the wooden part carries not more than 10 of the load. A recurve bow is a much simpler style of the bow than the more popular compound bow. Plans for this bow build are available free.

The term recurve comes from the way the bow curves away from the shooter at the ends. Here s a quick vid showing how to make a recurve bow form. The other pieces are cut oversize and trimmed to match later. Fiberglass back and belly with maple laminates and purple heart core and handle.

One layer is a template cut to the exact shape. A laminated bow is an archery bow in which different materials are laminated together to form the bow stave itself. These days recurve bows are made of fibreglass and laminated wood with the wood acting as the divider between two laminated sheets of fibreglass. The form is composed of four layers of 1 2 in.

First it s more difficult to make the form. This allows the bow to propel the arrow with more power and energy than a traditional straight limbed bow.