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Growth rings
Muskyman:
Okay I have to ask the novice question here. When you say early wood to late wood ratio are you talking about the thickness of the early and late wood rings being the same?
I’ve seen people talking about this several times and just got to show my ignorance and ask.
Selfbowman:
In my opinion! The more early wood you have . The less performance. Lets say that the late ring is 50 thousandths and early ring is 15 thousandths. That’s would be what I consider a great ratio.
bentstick54:
Muskyman, here is an example of late wood (darker) to early wood ( lighter). The deeper in this stave you go, the better the ratio. The darker late wood is thicker than the lighter early wood. For the style of bows, and the general purpose for which I use them, I would chase down to the 1st late wood ring I could get to without violating it. I do not glue on handles, so that limits how deep into the stave I can go. My bows have all come in between 165 to 170 fps with 9gpp arrows, have taken 1” to 1-1/2” set. They shoot well and hunt good, which is all I’m after.
bentstick54:
Arvin, the few super thick pieces of Osage I have come across so far, which is rare, if you look real close, seem to be made up of almost micro thin ring within the thick ( late wood) rings. What’s you experience?
Selfbowman:
My understanding is that is lunar rings. Makes sense till you count them.🤠And then there is the month or months of the early ring it’s self. Good question!
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