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Title: Any experience with quebracho wood, or axe breaker as its known?
Post by: Yellowstave on March 01, 2020, 05:36:57 pm
Any of you pros ever used any of this wood. Supposed to be twice as hard as osage. How would you get it?
Title: Re: Any experience with quebracho wood, or axe breaker as its known?
Post by: Pat B on March 01, 2020, 09:09:33 pm
Never heard of it. Where is it from?
Title: Re: Any experience with quebracho wood, or axe breaker as its known?
Post by: maitus on March 01, 2020, 09:24:32 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebracho_tree
Title: Re: Any experience with quebracho wood, or axe breaker as its known?
Post by: BowEd on March 01, 2020, 10:05:45 pm
Great mention and info fellas.An insight look into he origins of the powder used whlle what they call bark tannng.I still have some of this powder from a company.
For bow wood I know nothing about it.One question I would have about it how elastic it is to be bow wood.
Title: Re: Any experience with quebracho wood, or axe breaker as its known?
Post by: maitus on March 01, 2020, 11:54:46 pm

For bow wood I know nothing about it.

"It!?! There is at least 25 species that call quebracho :D... All they have different wood qualities.
Title: Re: Any experience with quebracho wood, or axe breaker as its known?
Post by: BowEd on March 02, 2020, 05:33:01 am

For bow wood I know nothing about it.

"It!?! There is at least 25 species that call quebracho :D... All they have different wood qualities.
Let us know with pictures the bows you've made from it. :BB
Title: Re: Any experience with quebracho wood, or axe breaker as its known?
Post by: Yellowstave on March 02, 2020, 07:12:59 am
All I know is that it's Spanish. The wood index has info
Title: Re: Any experience with quebracho wood, or axe breaker as its known?
Post by: BowEd on March 02, 2020, 07:18:45 am
No worries Yellowstave....Ask mr. encyclopedia.
Title: Re: Any experience with quebracho wood, or axe breaker as its known?
Post by: Yellowstave on March 02, 2020, 10:56:13 am
Most of you guys could fit that bill BowEd.
Title: Re: Any experience with quebracho wood, or axe breaker as its known?
Post by: maitus on March 02, 2020, 11:35:58 am

For bow wood I know nothing about it.

"It!?! There is at least 25 species that call quebracho :D... All they have different wood qualities.
Let us know with pictures the bows you've made from it. :BB
Didn't You read that IT will break axes and  draw knifes obviously as well? So how to make bow from IT :D?
Title: Re: Any experience with quebracho wood, or axe breaker as its known?
Post by: PatM on March 02, 2020, 12:43:19 pm
We know there a point of diminishing returns for wood hardness indicating suitability for bows.  This is likely one of those.
Title: Re: Any experience with quebracho wood, or axe breaker as its known?
Post by: BowEd on March 02, 2020, 01:27:51 pm
Anyone who's made a couple hundred successful bows out of 8 different types of wood and designs and posted dozens on this site as I have can read between the lines as to the suitability of a wood for bow making.
With me being into tanning leather also it's interesting.Although I seem to remember long ago reading that quebracho was gotten from a tree in South America and seems to be it's main money making commodity value.Tannin can be gotten from plain old oak bark though too.
For use on a bow possibly overlays in a nonbending stiff area of the bow.
Metal edges dull with the use of them on sage pretty regularly.
It still is an IT.


 
Title: Re: Any experience with quebracho wood, or axe breaker as its known?
Post by: Bubbabowyer on March 02, 2020, 06:59:57 pm
If one of our Spanish brothers could figure out how to cut one and ship it to me, I'd be happy to see exactly how many licks it would take to get to the centrr of that tootsie pop lol
Title: Re: Any experience with quebracho wood, or axe breaker as its known?
Post by: PatM on March 02, 2020, 07:05:27 pm
It's not actually from Spain.
Title: Re: Any experience with quebracho wood, or axe breaker as its known?
Post by: Bubbabowyer on March 02, 2020, 07:28:38 pm
Oops, I meant .....Jamaica!
Title: Re: Any experience with quebracho wood, or axe breaker as its known?
Post by: Jim Davis on March 03, 2020, 09:27:28 am
https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/TechSheets/Chudnoff/TropAmerican/html_files/schino1new.html (https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/TechSheets/Chudnoff/TropAmerican/html_files/schino1new.html)