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Adam Keiper

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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #15 on: May 01, 2009, 10:34:14 pm »
Haven't found anything that I like more than osage.
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Offline Timo

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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #16 on: May 01, 2009, 11:07:37 pm »
I can cut osage out my back door,so I'd have to go with it,besides I feel, for day to day abuse and use, it is the best.
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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #17 on: May 01, 2009, 11:47:01 pm »
I like Birch with a Maple or Hickory backing along with an additional silk backing with all combinations glued up with TiteBond III...

However, Birch is my favorite wood at this time, though I've used many combinations of Birch, Maple, Hickory, and Ash.
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Offline DustinDees

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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #18 on: May 01, 2009, 11:58:12 pm »
i have only had the chance to make board bows, and only used hickory and red oak, the hickory is the obvious winner of those 2 for me.

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Offline aaron

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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #19 on: May 02, 2009, 12:01:20 am »
vine maple.
it's common where i live, no sapwood to deal with , hardly checks while drying.its amall diameter, usually 2-6 inches. snakey. but mostly 'cos its easy to get.
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Offline adb

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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #20 on: May 02, 2009, 12:30:29 am »
Yew, osage, & maple... in that  order.
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Offline Gordon

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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #21 on: May 02, 2009, 08:26:56 pm »
Yew with osage coming in a close second.
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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #22 on: May 03, 2009, 12:04:25 am »
Every now and then i can get maple to hold together.
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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #23 on: May 03, 2009, 01:11:26 am »
yew for me
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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #24 on: May 03, 2009, 02:12:35 am »
 there is nothing like the fiery grain of that golden beauty.
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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #25 on: May 03, 2009, 07:35:10 am »
I like them all, but prefer those that  I can harvest myslf. Yew, Serviceberry, Wild Plum, and Mountain Maple. Gotta admit though that my best bows have come from Osage staves ,Vine Maple, and Ipe that I bougt on line.
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Illuminati

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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #26 on: June 25, 2009, 03:55:50 pm »
red oak here because i live in city without a backyard lol, ive done 3 bows so far and none needed a backing, red oak is the stuff

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Offline johnny

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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #27 on: June 25, 2009, 04:07:30 pm »
dogwood, black locust, mullberry and ash...
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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #28 on: June 25, 2009, 06:39:38 pm »
A thick, clean piece of straight ashe juniper sapwood from a leaning trunk 8" in diameter is a rare gift to be cherished.

Otherwise, osage and mulberry.  Hickory is close behind.

Also, red oak is not as bad as I once thought...it's climbing the list.
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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #29 on: June 25, 2009, 07:27:46 pm »
Whatever is available.Ron
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