Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: RyanR on February 14, 2015, 09:52:08 am
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Anyone have any luck using Cumaru for belly wood?
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Cumaru is about like black locust, it needs a lot of working limb. Nice fast wood but chrysals easily. I did ok with it using a little reflex on stiff handled longbows but failed when I worked it up as r/d bows.
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Same experience, basically. I got it in the form of flooring boards, so the grain wasn't wonderful, but even so, I failed in 4-5 attempts. It's been 8 or 10 years, so I can partly blame my skills at the time as well. (I had a lot of failures with what should have been good wood.) I found it even harder, heavier, and stiffer than BL, but likewise kind of brittle when made to do work. I tried boo backed R/D bows, too, and 1.5" wide flatbows with reflex toward the tips, (it's hard to bend into your forms).
One bow really looked like it was going to work, and was very pretty, etc, but it would actually crumble here and there at the edges and stuff, and cryshalled if I wasn't careful.
I think it has potential, though. I bet I could do it NOW.