Skinning a wooden core with carbon
Hi,
my plan is to use carbon fibers for my selfmade recurve bow riser. It is the first time im working with reinforcements so there are some questions.
I`ve learnd that I have to apply epoxy on the wodden core and it has to get to "tacky" stage before applying the first layer of carbon fibers.
Must it dry now before wetting it out with epoxy again and applying the next fibers? That`s how they did it in the easy composites tutorial but they proceeded with epoxy only instead of a secound layer.
The secound question is how hard is it to vaccum bag it? It was the original plan to do so for a better fiber/resin ratio. But I´ve read that it is pretty hard to get an descent result because of wrinkels caused by the bagging process.
If someone can give me some hints especially for the first point would be nice.