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Terrible Tiller Cascara Warbow Experiment
D. Tiller:
JD, I think I have some small peices of Cascarra that are all seasoned out and may make some nice, short flatbows. They have the look of yew but the bark is more like and eastern hardwood. You would not happen to have a picture of it lying about would ya? Maybe its black locust, but not sure. If it can take that kind of straing the bow I'm think about at 50" long and in a Modoc style may not need to be sinewed either. Should be fun to try!
David T.
PS: Nope the new bow is not done yet but will be soon. Just got it sanded a couple nights ago and once I get a couple coasts of varnish on it I will put the photos up for ya all to see. For a 50# bow in the full compass rose design it shoot pretty good if you use Cedar shafts out of it.
duffontap:
--- Quote from: heavybow on August 08, 2007, 02:11:29 pm ---Josh maybe the next one will turn out better. Still a nice bow. marlon
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I hope so. This was a sacrificial bow Marlon. The intention was to concentrate the stress on one limb so I could see when it would crystal and break. You can see that the limbs are not even with each other, but they have a relatively smooth bend--no hinges. The limb on the right in the picture took very little set compared to the other.
J. D. Duff
Asiertxu:
--- Quote ---Jeremy, I already did. It's in the same family as hawthorn and blackthorn. The species asier was talking about do exist here but not in Scotland Sad
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Hey Simon!!... ;)...
Dont´warry about that mate!!..perhaps you can´t find these two buckthorn species I was talking about in Edinburg, where you live!!.. :)..
There are at least one, if not more species of buckthorn that you must have access to. The species in question is "Rhamnus Cathartica", and this wood must to be BEAUTIFULL fellow, and EXCELLENT for bow making too!!... :) ;)...
Jeremy, you must have access to this species of buckthorn too mate!!.. ;)...
Cheers an good look finding it!
Asier.
SimonUK:
That's good news Asier. Can you generally find a piece long and straight enough for a longbow?
DanaM:
So you guys are saying that buckthorn is a good bow wood? In my home town here in northern michigan
they are building a new Manard's hardware store it took them years to get a permit as the DEQ had designated the area as wetlands.
The construction site was covered in shruby trees that I always thought were tag alders, BTW I grew up playing in this area.
Anyway I was talking to one of project engineers and he said the trees were buckthorn an invasive species that escaped peoples
yards and such. Don't know the species possibly R. cathartica, now that I think about it, it looks more like R. frangula glossy buckthorn.
A quote from wikpedia
The Purging Buckthorn or Common Buckthorn (R. cathartica) is a widespread European native species, in the past used as a purgative, though its toxicity makes this a very risky herbal medicine and it is no longer used. Introduced into the United States as a garden shrub, this has become an invasive species in many areas there.
If this stuff is any good there are acres and acres of it ;D
What do ya think guys?
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