Anybody like White Ash?

[Hillbilly]

That's why a perfectly designed yew bow will outperform a perfectly designed ash bow, for example.

Here we go back to the whitewood wars.  All this has been hashed out and pretty much proven to be bull crap back years ago by baker, Hamm, and all that bunch. Dan Perry has set world flight records with hickory bows shooting against prime-wood bows. Badger has done vice-versa. I don't really care to delve into it again. I personally believe that no one wood is faster than another by a noticible difference, unless it's just a light crap wood to begin with. I do think that some woods perform better in some areas-it's hard to beat osage and locust here in the humid east.

[JackCrafty]

Here we go back to the whitewood wars.

Yep.  Couldn't resist the controversial topic.  I know that world records can be set with bows made from wood other than yew (or other "prime" wood)....and I know about Baker's tests and so forth.

Someday, we'll discover the perfect design for each wood (under various weather conditions)....and then we will see that one wood is faster than another.

[Hillbilly]

[akila]

I had made a fiew ash bows...i  have noticed that ash can be realy impredictibale.....sometime u find a peace of ash wich is realy gr8....and sometimes it just brake  with no reason....aniway its a pretty good bow wood....just make the bow a little wider....its better choise for ash....