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Morgan:
I went on a walk at the creek this morning after I got off work and saw an elm sapling that asked me nicely to take it home with me so I obliged. I have cut slippery elm saw logs from 6” to 24” in diameter when I ran a sawmill, and all those logs had a lot of dark reddish brown heartwood. Winged elm is obvious to identify. I don’t know anything about American elm, but I didn’t think it had any heartwood. This tree was about 3” dia  at the base and has a dime size heart that is medium/dark brown. Anyone know right off what it would be? I was able to split it in half and got one mostly clean stave and one stave that has a pair of large gnarly knots in the center that I may or may not be able to utilize

Morgan:
The staves

half eye:
From the few that I've cut here in Northern Mi. that looks like the Grey Elm up here....I believe that is American Elm (Loggers ans Sawyers here about call it grey elm).....makes a damned fine bow.
rich

upstatenybowyer:
How big were the leaves?

Morgan:
Rich, I was thinking it was but not sure. The clean stave is going to be an eastern woodlands style bow, I know forum member Thunder has had good success with elm and that style bow.

Upstate, probably 1 1/2” long? I should have saved some cuttings to try to root.

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