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fishfinder401:

--- Quote from: nidrinr on February 25, 2011, 05:45:29 am ---..I have a 220#'er wytch elm, but it's allready sold/traded.. I have plans to make more bows this heavy, but I have 4 kids so I'm not working as fast as I want to :)

-I have a 150# osage soon ready for Eirik D, and I'm working on a 190#'er wytch elm for Gibbs. I also have some bows ranging from 120 to 170# that I will finish during spring. Hopefully I'll have time to make myself a bow soon too :)

Anyways, a maple core might be a good idea. They use maple as a core in hornbows between the horn and the sinew, so it should do god as a core in trilams. I wouldn't know where your closest boo supplier is, but it shouldn't be too hard to find.

What wood do you have access too? There must be some native wood you can use for warbows..?

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if i was to use a stave i have black locust, and at a property we have a few hours away we have ash and rock maple, i'm planning on getting some of that next time i go up, but for now i wanted to try a tri lam bow, as i don't have to dry it  and a lacal lumber place has ipe, home depot has the maple and now i just need to find the bamboo, im having trouble finding over 72 inches, and at that its already more expensive than the ipe,
thanks for the advice
noel

fishfinder401:
i think i have a place were i could get hickory, would it be fine if i just used that instead of bamboo, and if i do use it, what type of grain do i look for, i have seen it with the grain stacked from side to side and top to bottom, so i'm not sure which is better?
thanks
noel

Ian.:
It depends if you can take it to a single growth ring or not a 1/4 sawn hickory back will be fine, if you can take it to a single growth ring then that would be better.

fishfinder401:

--- Quote from: Ian. on February 25, 2011, 04:14:41 pm ---It depends if you can take it to a single growth ring or not a 1/4 sawn hickory back will be fine, if you can take it to a single growth ring then that would be better.

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ok, that gives me some options then, especially now that i know what i am looking for ;D

nidrinr:
-And try BL. Especially with a heat treated belly I believe it to be excellent for heavy bows. I've only worked one piece of BL, and even though that is coming out a flatbow 80-100#, it feels like it manage a longbow design up to 150# maybe more.

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