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jkekoni:
abd3112.
We are talking about Western Red Cedar<Thuja plicata>, it is Thuja and lost of lighter than Eastern red cedar<Juniperus virginiana>( which is juniper).

Everyone knows ERC makes fine backed bows with reasonable dimenssions.

Pappy:
Very nice looking bow and the tiller is dead on.
     Pappy

Badger:
I have had problems with western cedar delaminating between the growth rings, sometimes on the first bend every ring will seperate. Not much shear strength between the rings. On the plus not, I made a kid a w c bow about 5 years ago and he is still shooting it. Steve

Trapper:
What work Ive done on WRC, is that it has to be mostly sapwood and sinewbacked , the juniper I used in Tx. is way better bowwood, I know you say WRC is a juniper and it well might be, but its not the same thing I had in tx.That stuff down there was tough , you couldnt hardly break a limb of it. I loved it for bowwood , but as most of you know I sinew back everything.     The center of this WRC is purple not Redish brown like the Tx. junipers.      Trapper

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