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Cuban degame ( lemonwood) as a backing?

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Badger:
   Does anyone know if any longbows have been built with Degame as a backing. I only have enough for 1 backing and if it probably won't work I don't want to waste it. Grain is not all that straight and does have violations. I have heard they don't worry about violations on degame but I am not convinced.

PatM:
It wasn't violations but general growth ring orientation that didn't matter with lemonwood.
 Many Lemonwood bows ended up backed with some form of backing for insurance.
 I certainly wouldn't use any wood with violated grain for a backing.

adb:
Use it as core wood for a tri-lam.

Badger:
  I went ahead and glued it up to an unknown tropical wood with the lemonwood back. The tropical wood didn't have any tendency to chrysal like so many do and was relatively light at about 70 sg. I got it out to about 24" draw and my splice let go, This was the first time I tried a working handle using tightbond, the splice looked good so I am assuming the tightbond is not good for a flexable joint. My lemonwood was a lot straighter than I first thought it was once I cleaned it up, nice straight edge grain. Going to try again with cherry, no splice this time.

mullet:
I would use it as a Belly wood, tho may be wrong.

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