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By Bowmaker - 5/24/2015 6:37:57 PM

Hi - Do you supply Carbon fiber strips to archery bowmakers please? 
By Dravis - 10/1/2015 8:39:26 AM

Since you are already laminating wood, then adding unidirectional CF fabric strips is straight forward..

What kind of "glue" are you using to laminate the wood strips --- Epoxy - If not then do switch to epoxy -- Simply wet out the unidirectional strips thoroughly with  epoxy directly onto your wood strips.

Build up a "stack" and  compress ...   I take it that you have some sort of shaped "compression" setup to shape the limbs ?

I have built a couple of straight longbows this way -- and an experimental set of recurve limbs for my compound hunting bow handle .. they work great!