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Walnut & hackberry
jcougar:
I've had good luck with hackberry and bad luck with walnut sapwood. Hackberry makes a real nice bow, just don't go too fast in the tillering process or you'll end up with half the weight you wanted.
snedeker:
I made a nice one from walnut heart lumber backed with maple. hackberry is the standard white wood deal where the sapwood is where its at.
Dave
Justin Snyder:
Thanks guys, I think I will split the Hackberry to make some all sapwood and some 50/50 bows. We didn't get a real consensus on the walnut, :'( any more thoughts.
Pappy, I think I can manage dry. ;D It has been in the mid 90s all week and hasn't rained since before I came to Tennessee. Justin
Pat B:
I have never used Hackberry but I have made nice bow with BW sapwood...usually overbuilt. I did make an ELB style hickory backed BW that ended up fretting badly after a few shots.
You have enough sapwood to get 2 or 3 piggy backs from that BW log. Pat
tom sawyer:
I also made a decent hickory-backed walnut heartwood bow (1/4-sawn). So the heartwood will work at least as a belly. Around here the walnut has pretty thick sapwood so if you were using under the bark as your back, you'd probably have an all-sapwood bow. I don't know how it is to chase a ring, because the stuff is semi-ring porous so it will be a little different to try and follow a ring.
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