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Wood? for Warbow/ Heavy elb
blackhawk:
Of the woods you listed that you have available at your lumberyard,i wood get hickory and ipe,and make a hickory backed ipe
mikekeswick:
--- Quote from: blackhawk on June 02, 2012, 09:18:43 pm ---Of the woods you listed that you have available at your lumberyard,i wood get hickory and ipe,and make a hickory backed ipe
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fishfinder401:
--- Quote from: mikekeswick on June 03, 2012, 05:02:17 am ---
--- Quote from: blackhawk on June 02, 2012, 09:18:43 pm ---Of the woods you listed that you have available at your lumberyard,i wood get hickory and ipe,and make a hickory backed ipe
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H Rhodes:
I think that white oak gets bad reviews sometimes, and I thought I agreed until I heat treated my first one..... I made two bows from a 8" diameter "quercus alba" log just recently. Both were 70" ntn and about 50lbs draw weight. The first one ended up with very average performance and 2 1/2" - 3" string follow..... The second was tillered out to 50# @ 26" and then heat treated. The limbs were toasted to a nice brown color and lightly "reverse floor tillered" mildly reflexing the tips to take out the set that was emerging. THIS BOW WAS STRUNG THE NEXT DAY AND PULLED 65# @ 28"WITH 0 SET. White oak loves heat treating and should stand up to any highly stressed design - just my opinion.
mikekeswick:
--- Quote from: hrhodes on June 09, 2012, 05:43:38 pm ---I think that white oak gets bad reviews sometimes, and I thought I agreed until I heat treated my first one..... I made two bows from a 8" diameter "quercus alba" log just recently. Both were 70" ntn and about 50lbs draw weight. The first one ended up with very average performance and 2 1/2" - 3" string follow..... The second was tillered out to 50# @ 26" and then heat treated. The limbs were toasted to a nice brown color and lightly "reverse floor tillered" mildly reflexing the tips to take out the set that was emerging. THIS BOW WAS STRUNG THE NEXT DAY AND PULLED 65# @ 28"WITH 0 SET. White oak loves heat treating and should stand up to any highly stressed design - just my opinion.
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Next time you heat treat a bow do it just when the bow starts to take the first bit of set - it will be even better then!
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