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TRACY:
Makes a good hunting bow, just keep some length to it. Good wood!

Tracy

BowEd:
That'a what Tim Ott told me too.I've got 66 and 1/4 inches to work with.Two inches wide.Dried it into a reflex of 2 inches which I'm sure I'll lose with tillering.The early wood turning purple from a heat gun kind of different.Doing a density and bending test says this tree is about .70 SG and needs to be at least 1 and 3/4 inches wide.Guess I'll start long and wide enough and work my way down.Liked to get at least 55 pounds out of it at 28 inches.It's an interlocking type grain like elm and compression weak like elm too.Coarse looking early wood.I really think it's a little stronger wood than elm though.Kind of between elm and hickory.I'll find out soon taking wood off.Got a couple of remedies for the belly I've used..Heat treating or gluing on of a horn belly.I'm sure I'll learn something from it.

BowEd:
Ok I finally got around to this Coffee tree stave.Had to make a BBO first.I thought I would try to only make it 1 and 5/8ths inch wide to midlimb then to 1 and 3/8ths inch wide 8 inches from tip then eiffel tower it to 1/2 inch to the tip.Thinking I would put about 60 to 70 thousands or about 1/16th inch thick horn on it to strengthen it up a bit.Started with it at 66 inches reduced that to 63 inches t/t.Thinking I wanted to use it in my blind.Tillered it to about 42 pounds at 28 inch draw first then took my reflex deflex form I got copied from a friend of mine who copied it from Dean Torges form and glued the horn on the belly with smooth on into a mild reflex deflex giving it about 3 and 1/2 inches of reflex.I wrapped the horn on with inner tube strips.The horn was 18 inches long and I glued it clear up the fades to the handle close to the width of the bow.I like old Dean Torges bulbous type handle.It came out of the form with 1 and 1/2 inch reflex.Still in tiller.Mainly all I had to do then was shoot it in and finish it.Put about 100 arrows through it.Put some horn over lays on the tips and some on the belly of the handle.It gained about 9 pounds from the horn so it pulls about 51 pounds at 28 inches.After shooting it has about 1/2 inch reflex left when unstrug and returns to 7/8 inch in 2 hours. Shoots average for speed.500 grain arrow at 152 f/s.I'm happy and found out myself about this wood.It turns purple when heated and does have a nice over all kind of purpleish pink type of hue to it.Shoots very smooth with good early tension with very little hand shock.It was exactly like Tim Ott said and the TTB 4 book on bow wood Tim Baker wrote as far as density although I thought this stave was closer to .70 density.Thanks Tim and Tim.One of these days I'll get a digtal camera for pictures sorry because it is a nice enough looking bow.Well it's getting to winter and time to make some hickory bows [dry air and all].I'll try the same horn remedy with that wood too.

BowEd:
I forgot to mention that the first time the bow was tillered I basically tillered it in the brace and did'nt pull it past 18 or 20 inches of draw.If I do a good job of floor tillering it usually will be very close to tiller before a string is ever put on it.

BowEd:
I updated my string on this bow to 9 strands of fast flight and it now shoots a 500 grain arrow 158 foot a second average

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