Making Tapered Laminations

Then tape the sandpaper to the top of this tapered lamination.

Making tapered laminations.

Contact us if you need a different thickness or special sizing. Flip it over and grind the other side. See our selection of exotic hardwood bow laminations from around the world. 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.

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. Put one on the sled and run it through the sander. Tapered laminations made easy a single jig tapers the plies on the bandsaw and then guides them through the planer. First i just bought some tapered laminations from three rivers archery.

I got the cheapest ones they had and they had a 001 taper. Tapers in 001 per inch 002 per inch or 003 butt thicknesses from 080 to 125. Actionboo core laminations tapered quantity. The following is the procedure i worked out for making a jig to produce tapered strips.

The first involves using an edge sander or a spindle sander. Synopsis open up a new range of design possibilities by incorporating tapered curved laminations into your furniture. To make your lams first grind them all parallel and slightly over in thickness like 010 over. This is unnecessary but lemme tell you how i make tapered laminations.

Keep flipping it over and grinding alternate sides until it reaches the target thickness. 002 per inch taper. Use our bow building laminations to build your one of a kind masterpiece longbow. By michael fortune 197 mar april 2008 issue.

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. That means the laminations is 001 in thinner with every inch in length.