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PatM:
Rock Elm is harder on average but American Elm varies to the point where it can have wood as hard or even harder.
Rock Elm was extensively harvested for hockey sticks up here back in the day.
Our Elms are actually rebounding quite well from the blight.
Selfbowman:
Congratulations on the elm!!
BowEd:
It's definitely harder than any red elm here of which that's what I've got here mostly.
Not that red elm can't make a bow close to 50#'s but that stuff is usually overly wide then and does'nt have the snap the harder elm has.
It's pliable qualities make it good to take the bending to make furniture.Resists splitting.Overall just tough.It is supposed to have lines going across the longitudal grain that make it interlocking.
Not that it's a god send for bow wood or anything but one would have to make bows from it to know what I mean.It also takes heat treatment very well.
I'm scoring all the straight logs and then splitting.Getting more staves than I figured.Logs are straight as a gun barrel to begin with.
Bark removal is a breeze.
There's a lot more of this stuff down there where it came from.
Will B:
Looking forward to seeing what you make from those staves, Ed. How long do you figure you need to let them season before starting to work on them?
Russ:
That looks like some good wood! Nice find!
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