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European beech suitable?
Del the cat:
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https://bowyersdiary.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/maple-ii-vs-maple-i.html
Del
FilipT:
Woods here are basically 95% E. beech. Would be interesting to attempt to make bow out of it. Can maple be made with warbow configuration or it prefers flatbows?
DC:
I've got a big European Beech in my front yard. I've done searches for "European Beech Bows" on a few occasions and all I ever found was "the fibers are too short" whatever that means.
stuckinthemud:
I've just read through the posts on Del's blog (Sept and Oct 2012) and his maple primitive flat Bow worked very well. As for the too short fibres thing, I wonder how much is experience and how much is rumour, I am definitely going to cut some this winter.
Marc St Louis:
The few people that talked about using European Beech in the past said that bows made from the wood broke in tension, hence the short fiber thing
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