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Woods superior to osage
willie:
--- Quote from: Badger on June 04, 2025, 04:52:10 pm --- I wish I knew how to perform an engineering-grade bend test.
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Are you wishing to test specifically for hysterisis?
I think a hundred years ago there was an impact test that measured rebound heighths.
mmattockx:
--- Quote from: Badger on June 04, 2025, 04:52:10 pm ---Most of the elms are excellent and I feel slightly better than hickory, but Chinese elm has a quality that would allow it to cut into boards for self-bows without worrying about grain run out, it is also fast growing tree that often grows straight as a pole for 10 or 12 feet. Nice creamy white wood, strong and I suspect low hysteresis for a white wood.
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Is this the Chinese Elm you are speaking of?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulmus_parvifolia
Sounds like I might even have a chance of finding some here, which would be a novelty.
Mark
superdav95:
Interesting post badger! Bamboo if done right and heat treated correctly. Sweetgum too! Already mentioned I think but hhb too.
jameswoodmot:
I hope to be able to get my hands on a stave of this Osage I hear so much of, one day.
I’m am grateful for the bounty of wych elm I have access to. I don’t have much to compare it to but I hear good things about it from people that know more than I do.
I’m still finding myself surprised and impressed by how much wood, of any type, will tolerate if treated nicely.
pierce_schmeichel:
Where I live and out of the bows I have made. Sinew backed juniper bows are by far the best. Osage just hasn't been quite as fast and its so heavy. Juniper is so lightweight, It just feels like nothing in the hand and zipps arrows downrange. Not that osage is bad or anything like that! It is just that a well made sinew backed juniper just hard to beat in my book
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