I have a turkish bow in progress .... using bamboo as core
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Some pictures right before sinew job ... will report next phases ...
Keep us posted on that one, and start a new thread for it. Looking good so far.
Now, what I find interesting is that the choice for core woods doesn't seem to be that important:
people either use elastic woods with low stiffness for their density and good compression properties (mulberry, osage, yew, ...), either stiff bamboo cores with much less compression properties, or something in between, like hard maple.
Doesn't this show that it doens't matter all that much?
For very elastic core woods, make the core a bit thicker, for very stiff cores, make it a bit thinner, to get the same net result.
just my thoughts
J