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Elm Warbow
Yeomanbowman:
A fine bow Marc, and short too. What was the SG of the wood, please?
Marc St Louis:
--- Quote from: Yeomanbowman on January 27, 2010, 04:36:11 pm ---A fine bow Marc, and short too. What was the SG of the wood, please?
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Couldn't tell you for sure but the wood is not from one of the dense species. I would say around .55
Matthias Wiltschko:
Great looking bow and wonderful drawweight.
Matthias
markinengland:
Marc,
It must be my eyes but in the top left hand image it looks like the bow is twisted or is just that just the bow is unstrung and with much of the bottom limb out of the picture?
What kind of section do the limbs have?
Why do you feel it is better than yew? What advantages does Elm have over Yew?
Mark in England
Marc St Louis:
Mark
It is your eyes, or maybe just the camera angle.
This Elm is relatively low density but fairly elastic. The width is, as I said, 1 3/8" and the thickness is 7/8". The limbs are a D section.
Perhaps I should have said that heat-treated Elm is, in some ways, better than Yew. They take less set and keep any reflex better than Yew even after shooting for awhile.
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