Making Tapered Laminations

Keep flipping it over and grinding alternate sides until it reaches the target thickness.
Making tapered laminations. The first involves using an edge sander or a spindle sander. By michael fortune 197 mar april 2008 issue. 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. I got the cheapest ones they had and they had a 001 taper.
To make your lams first grind them all parallel and slightly over in thickness like 010 over. Use our bow building laminations to build your one of a kind masterpiece longbow. Contact us if you need a different thickness or special sizing. 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.
Put one on the sled and run it through the sander. 002 per inch taper. Then tape the sandpaper to the top of this tapered lamination. Flip it over and grind the other side.
Synopsis open up a new range of design possibilities by incorporating tapered curved laminations into your furniture. Actionboo core laminations tapered quantity. Tapered laminations made easy a single jig tapers the plies on the bandsaw and then guides them through the planer. Tapers in 001 per inch 002 per inch or 003 butt thicknesses from 080 to 125.
See our selection of exotic hardwood bow laminations from around the world. The best technique for making these laminations michael fortune. This is unnecessary but lemme tell you how i make tapered laminations. First i just bought some tapered laminations from three rivers archery.
The following is the procedure i worked out for making a jig to produce tapered strips. 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.