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warbow backings?
Marc St Louis:
If you are using Osage then it wouldn't be an accurate reproduction, I don't think Osage grew overseas at the time. That being the case why don't you just use a hard backing. If you use Hickory you can round the back and make it look like a sapwood back
david w.:
i would need yew but i dont have that much money to drop so osage is the next best thing ;D
ok i was thinking hickory i just wasnt sure
markinengland:
Osage with a hickory backing looks quite "authentic" and works. I have seen some nice hickory backed osage heavy warbows. I am not sure that rawhide would be strong enough on a warbow. If the wood was good enough to work with just rawhide, in my opinion it would probably be good enough to work unbacked. I have never seen a rawhide backed warbow here. Use good hickory. Most big backed bows that blow seem to go because of failings in the hickory rather than the belly wood.
Bamboo certainly works very well, but does not look quite so traditional. My feeling is that the bowyers of old would have used bamboo if they had it.
Towards the end of the age of the english warbow age, some bows were being made of Pernambua, a South American hardwood. Also at this time some warbows were apparently backed though I m not sure what they were backed with. I suspect that it was the tropical hardwood bows that were backed but no backed bows have been found.
Matk in England
david w.:
thanks Mark that was very helpful
alanesq:
What draw weight are you looking for ?
I have made a 120lb at 32" bow from cheap kiln dried ash without any backing so I would imagine you wont have any problem getting this out of your wood ?
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