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Differences in Yew Sapwood
George Tsoukalas:
There really is no need to go past your draw length.
Trust your instincts, JD. Jawge
Del the cat:
Looks fine to me. Rather than a clean crisp heart /sap boundary, you often get Yew with indistinct sapwood, where it looks like it goes heart, sap, heart, sap or has some rings a darker colour.
As long as you have a reasonable thickness of the paler stuff you'll be ok.
A yew primitive I finished a while back has a patch on the back that looks like I've gone through the sapwood, but when you look at the edge you can see there is plenty.
Del
SDBurntStick:
Well, I'm sad to report that this will end up as just another burnt stick...and I really liked this bow. It shot great but for no apparent reason decided to go kerbang! on me at full draw this evening. I've shot at least 500 arrows through it. Maybe it was dry and it's a little chilly today. There was a small pint knot that could possibly have been the culprit. Who knows but I questioned the sapwood on this one from the get go. Oh well, yew almost had me, but I think I still prefer osage and hickory lol. It sure did shoot sweet though.
Muskyman:
Man that stinks. I’m just getting ready to start on my first yew project and was looking at your bow and then got to your post about it blowing up on you. My kids gave me my stave for my birthday. And as you said in your original post there pricy.
Sorry for your loss, it looked like a sweet bow.
superdav95:
Feel your pain. I’ve had this too with yew. When you get them right they are great shooting bows. Sometimes it’s nothing you did wrong in construction. It’s just wood at the end of the day that fails. I find yew to be like that more often then other wood species.
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