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Second growth yew question. (UPDATE #3 WITH VIDEO)
peacefullymadewarbows:
Yes! I was planning to do just that! I'm hopeful it'll look a little less angry when narrowed. The stave feels your motivation haha! ;D thank you.
peacefullymadewarbows:
Small Update: I narrowed the problem area on the stave down to about 35mm wide. The final width will be 27.5 mm in that area based on Will's dimensions. So, I didn't want to get too close before final decisions. The growth boundaries look exactly the same. No worse no better. BUT, one important discovery was made. I decided to take some shavings that had wood from both sides of the boundary on it. They were draw knife shavings about 1mm thick. I took three of them in hand and split them along the rings, and to my surprise 2 out of three did not break along the dark line but rather in healthy rings near it. This indicates 1. the two colors are actually bound at least mostly prior to what I thought (them being totally unmarried) and the boundary could be as strong or nearly as strong as rings bound in the same session of growth (no injury). Question is do you guys think that is a strong enough test to change how I treat this area? Just wanted to update everyone. Thank you for reading!
meanewood:
All the more reason to go ahead and make the bow you want.
That 'line' could be just a sap layer but whatever it is I don't think It will have much effect on that areas ability to bend safely!
DC:
--- Quote from: meanewood on January 14, 2019, 04:52:41 pm ---All the more reason to go ahead and make the bow you want.
That 'line' could be just a sap layer but whatever it is I don't think It will have much effect on that areas ability to bend safely!
--- End quote ---
I'm not there to look at it so I'm guessing a bit, but go for it.
peacefullymadewarbows:
meanewood and Dc: Thank you guys. I will go forward with replicating sans one aspect for sure. I am going to keep the stave 73" long as I am hopeful to use this bow myself and I shoot at 31". I will retry this replica again with the 72" long when I have a similarly short stave to work with and see where it ends up at 29-30". My final decision to make will be thinning sapwood (bringing the line closer to the neutral plane) or leave it full thickness (having the line maybe taper out on the belly partially) and that I'll just have to go with my gut on. The sapwood is currently about 10mm. The MR bows had about 4-6mm of sap wood? Thanks again.
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