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What else can you ask from a bowwood ?? (full draw pics)
Marc St Louis:
IPE and Bamboo are a great combination, better than Osage and Bamboo. Osage just doesn't quiet have the compression strength to properly handle Bamboo. Brazilian Ironwood is another wood that handles bamboo quite well but it's a bit weaker in tension than IPE so you have to be careful reflexing the glue up.
1/2primitive:
I heard it was supposed to be pronounced eepay, with a long e. I've got it wrong now? ???
Sean
Pat B:
Sean, That is the way I always pronounced it, too! Pat
duffontap:
Just like Ebay with a 'p'. So simple.
Around here it's also sold under the names:
Ironwood, Rinodeck, Brazilian mahogany, Sounth American mahogany, as well as about ten names I couldn't pronounce to save my life.
I could get clear 1x6 boards for $1.80 a foot a couple years ago. My local lumber yards stopped carrying it.
J. D. Duff
Justin Snyder:
Be carefull getting it by any other name. I got some Brazilian Mahogany, it was not the same. In fact it was TRASH. Justin
Manny, we are still waiting for pictures of the bow. ;D
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