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boughnut:
Has anyone ever used dog wood for a warbow?  I harvested a very nice tall straight dog wood today and got many straight staves.  2 of which are over 80 inches.  I am not to familiar with its bow making properties but I have seen many flat bows made form it. 

fusizoli:
What kind of Cornus u' ve cut?

blackhawk:
If ya hadn't gone MIA,then ya wouldn't have missed this beauty by druid. Altho,this is european species,but id imagine both are pretty much the same in properties.

 http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=29098.0

fusizoli:
Cornus sangifolia is the most common, and I think Druid's bow made from that. This is softer than the cornus mas, which is very dens stuff and allows D profile warbow better. Should make narow lims and tips from that. Sangifolia needs a bit wider limbs with not so crowned belly and soak the pin knots with superglue on the belly side  ;)

Anyway both of tham great bow wood. I would go for the warbow weight with cornus mas.
Take care with heat treat if the middle of the wood in the limbs. Both of tham like to crack lenghtwise.

boughnut:
I am not sure what type exactally no flowers now berries I think it must have been a male tree maybe? was about 40 foot tall pipe straight for the first 14 to 16 feet 8" wide trunk Got 2 perfectly straight 7 foot sections ande one slightly curvey 8" section.  I cut most of my trees with hand saw and I will have to say this was one of the hardest to cut through harder than the hickory I cut the week before and harder than the apple I cut a few days after and much harder than the ash I cut a month ago.  If that helps no core wood grain almost perfectly straight got lots of very nice staves out of it.  was not sure if it was war bow material usually I dont get so many long staves so was wondering since I have them.  IT was found in middle of the wood not in a yard and there are tones of them back there but out of all the ones I saw it was the best straightes tallest one with most staves in it.  I think I iwll end up witha total of 10 staves out of it.  and that is leaving some of them way oversized for war bows but was thinking flat bows as well.  good to know I can make one out of it.  since I have it.  Not much a war bow builder, built one years ago out of bamboo and osage but never a self warbow thought it would be fun to try.  Anyone on here interested in a nice stave from it?  I have extras.  I was just going to try to get a few bows from it and share the welth a bit since it is so hard to find them like so straight and large.  any one want to give it a try and have much good to trade pm me.  I might put some up in the trading post.

Thanks For the info.

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