"Double" Backing a bow
Would there be any advantage/disadvantage to putting two wooden backing strips onto a bow? This would mainly be for aesthetic purposes, say a maple bow with a layer of purpleheart, finally backed by...
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Like you say, it is not under stress in the middle so it doesn't matter. But, it isn't called a backing strip but it is just a belly lam or middle lam or something like that.
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Yep, you're basically building a multilam wood bow. In so doing, if it were me, I'd put material on the back that was excellent in tension, material on the belly that was excellent in compression, but...
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