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DC:
Thanks Wayne. Here is the bow I was using although I've had it happen with others. It's the 3rd post down after you click the link.
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,62436.30.html

TSA:
western hemlock is great shafting material. i dont think thats the issue.
especially as it was not kiln dried as well.
its good old growth is it?
hemlock on the ground will rot the quickest of all the woods.
its kind of a pioneer tree- its usually the first one to come in after the alders and other pioneer plants.
but you did say this was a green log.
 i have broken premium sitka, Poc, Fir, etc doing the bareshafting wrong :o

TSA:
beautiful bow by the way!
i really like it!!
just my kind of bow.

so no cut in shelf?
what kind of string?
set up to shoot like a self bow- but the recurves and the increased efficiency will want a stiffer spine.
thicker( B50) string will want a softer spine
i would look at the selfbow chart- and maybe err on the stiffer side.

TSA:
here is a glass longbow type chart- not cut to center, but with a cut in shelf- but just use it as a reference.

DC:
 Thanks Wayne, I use eight strand FF. I like the look off no shelf and I shoot just as poorly off my knuckle as off a shelf so I went that way.
I got the Hemlock from a dry land sort (Sayward Timber) just up the road. It was a 4' chunk about 2' in dia that they'd cut off. They gave it to me and even loaded it in the truck with a huge loader. In one section about 1/2" thick there is 30 rings but most of it would be in the 40 RPI range. The log had a tiny bit of twist but the shafts come out good. It just seems brittle but I'm comparing it with bamboo so maybe that's a bit unfair.

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