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Hop horn beam and belly frets
Selfbowman:
--- Quote from: Marc St Louis on November 12, 2022, 08:55:02 am ---I cut a small diameter HHB many years ago and started making a longbow out of it after seasoning it for a year. Had to quit on it because it started to chrysal badly. Not too often HHB chrysals but it does happen
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Haven’t seen you on in awhile Marc. All woods are not the same even in the same species. Great Osage and no good at all Osage. Arvin🤠
bassman211:
Mark you and selfbowman may have some thing. I have another stave floor tillered ,and straightened on a 4 inch reflex form. The wood is at 12 percent, and wide enough to make what I want. The reason I asked the question is that this wood seems to fret if I look at it wrong. Unlike the blue beech, or many others white woods that I have worked with are far as that goes. Not having experience with it I asked the question. It is in the birch family, but different genus. It gets high marks from many on here. Always had a tough time finding it were I live. A friend gifted me the log, and I was excited to make a few bows from it. As far as tillering goes I have no problems with black locust George, and Ed. I did with one bad wood log years ago. since then I have made some of my best shooters from black locust.Thanks guys for more info.
George Tsoukalas:
Good for you, Bassman. I like BL too. I had problems with it in the beginning of my bow making journey but ash more so. Jawge
Digital Caveman:
If a friend gifted you the log, do you have any idea how it was treated once it was cut?
bassman211:
Yooper ,yes. I split the logs in half, and put them in my basement at 62 degrees, and 65 percent humidity a day after it was cut.. After 10 months I quartered the staves, and started making the bows at 13 percent :( >:(t moisture content. Bark was left on till then. All seemed fine until I detected some very small frets in 2 of the bows after shooting them.
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