To make your lams first grind them all parallel and slightly over in thickness like 010 over.
Making tapered laminations.
The best technique for making these laminations michael fortune.
Then tape the sandpaper to the top of this tapered lamination.
That means the laminations is 001 in thinner with every inch in length.
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Actionboo core laminations tapered quantity.
The following is the procedure i worked out for making a jig to produce tapered strips.
By michael fortune 197 mar april 2008 issue.
Flip it over and grind the other side.
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.
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.
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.
Tapers in 001 per inch 002 per inch or 003 butt thicknesses from 080 to 125.
This is unnecessary but lemme tell you how i make tapered laminations.
002 per inch taper.
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Keep flipping it over and grinding alternate sides until it reaches the target thickness.
I got the cheapest ones they had and they had a 001 taper.
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I figured a rather simple way to make tapered strips for bow laminations using a hand plane.
The first involves using an edge sander or a spindle sander.