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black cherry/hickory ewb

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killir duck:
anybody ever try a hickory backed black cherry ewb? correct me if i'm wrong but the compression strength of the black cherry should go well the tension strength of the hickory and make a sweet shooting bow. i'm shooting for about 90# at 32" do you think that tb3 would be a good choice for the glueup?

RyanY:
I did a hickory backed black cherry with a purple heart core at 100#@32". The black cherry suffered terrible compression fractures. If black cherry can make a heavier bow my guess is that the backing needs to be thin and probably a little trapped with the belly being flat otherwise I don't think it's dense enough to hold up. A rawhide backing might be a better option.

killir duck:
do you think i would be better off just using solid hickory? i have no experiance with these heavier weights like this ( above 75# ) thanks,

     Duck

RyanY:
Yes I have made a couple solid hickory warbows and have seen others. It will definitely stand up to the heavy weights.

adb:
Cherry has only worked for me with wide flat limbs. Anything else has chrysalled horribly. Tiller has to be perfect, too. Not ideal wood for a heavy EWB, IMHO. I also think hickory would over power the cherry badly, making it chrysal worse.

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