Author Topic: One Seed Juniper vs Alligator Juniper for bow wood?  (Read 853 times)

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Offline freeway

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One Seed Juniper vs Alligator Juniper for bow wood?
« on: February 05, 2020, 12:00:39 am »
For those experienced with both of these woods, which do you prefer for making bows? Can you say a bit about why? Thanks.

Offline Azmdted

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Re: One Seed Juniper vs Alligator Juniper for bow wood?
« Reply #1 on: February 05, 2020, 01:39:51 pm »
I don't have enough experience with the bows yet to comment on anything other than my experience gathering both.  It was much easier for me to find One-Seed Juniper branches/stumps that are suitable for bows than Alligator Juniper.  Almost all the Alligator Juniper I found was either knotty or twisted in lengths suitable for bows, but the One-Seed seemed to produce about 1 tree in 30 or 40 that had fairly straight stumps in 60 inch lengths.  Probably not a universal situation but that was my experience in Arizona.

Offline freeway

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Re: One Seed Juniper vs Alligator Juniper for bow wood?
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2020, 08:02:28 pm »
Thanks for you post Az!