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hello and a bow wood question
M-P:
Howdy, Jackcrafty has posted several bows made from Ashe juniper, including a fairly heavy weight warbow. If you can find a straight piece of juniper you're in. Check out jackcrafty's posts or even send him a pm.
Now those twisty osage orange trees have their proponents too. Ron
JW_Halverson:
It might be best to start with osage and then try so-called second string woods. Osage will take a lot of abuse and still bend without blowing up. There is a saying on here that sums it up, "Don't take much osage to make a bow."
gstoneberg:
Hard for me to say, but JW is right. Osage is a lot easier to get a bow out of than juniper, especially for a new bowyer. Pat B is making a real nice bow out of an osage sapling and is using the sapwood. That would be a good way to start if you can find one. Also, watch Craig's List. You might find somebody cutting fence posts that will sell you an osage post good for 2-4 bows for less than $10. You can get juniper the same way. I tillered my first hickory bow this weekend and I liked the wood a lot. If you can find some pecan or hickory it makes a great bow and San Antonio might be dry enough for it to shoot well. Sometimes local hardwood stores will have hickory boards too.
George
JW_Halverson:
--- Quote from: gstoneberg on January 22, 2012, 09:01:57 pm ---Hard for me to say, but JW is right.
--- End quote ---
Equally hard for me to live with the fact that I have taken a position that George would agree with. But that's life. :P
You should take him up on his offer to go woodcutting in two weeks, even if it is just to meet the woman that has tolerated him for so long she's officially a saint and also makes him biscuits and gravy (scones and sausage sauce for your Brits).
GaryR:
Arthur, you should try hickory or pecan(basically the same tree) if you want to cut your own. Use osage/bodark if you can get it. A lot of posts I've read on here are bows of elm which I know you also have locally.
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