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bownarra:
Yes ideally you wanr diffuse porous wood. Most birches aren't any good but there are exceptions. Around 0.60s.g. (you can go a little lower on light weight bows but not advisable for your first few hornbows), superb gluing properties and flawless straight grain with zero hints of knots or grain swirls. If you are going to be using a bent core then it also has to be a great steam bending wood.

stuckinthemud:
I stumbled over a paper that said that the best bow woods have a helical thickening to tbeir cell structure,  but I have no idea what that means.


https://www.researchgate.net/publication/257280329_Anatomy_of_Wooden_Core_of_Ottoman_Composite_Archery_Bows

Fab that norway maple is good, I'm surrounded by the stuff

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