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Utah Juniper - limb vs trunk wood

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willie:


Hopefully chuck has his email notifications turned on and can comment


--- Quote from: loefflerchuck on December 22, 2020, 08:12:46 pm ---The best incense cedar bows I made were from the top side of the branch..............

My favorite wood and the wood I have used most is juniper. Although I always back it with sinew, ..........

Sinew backed juniper bows I have made from compression wood harvested from mountain range islands in Utah and Nevada that recieve very little moisture have produced the best bows to date.

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Marin:
Yeah I saw that comment and that’s why I’ve usually harvested be ages or the tops of large limbs.
But as I said, it makes me confused why ancient peoples would ever bother with harvesting trunk wood. I can only conclude it was out of lack of good branches to make a bow from in the regions where bow stave trees are found.

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