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Offline nugget

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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #30 on: June 25, 2009, 11:01:35 pm »
Eastern Red Cedar is my favorite. Fast easy to work and light. You can leave it unbacked with sap wood, or leave it with thin sap wood alot of heart wood and back it.  Other than that Osage is second with Black Locust as a third.
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Offline woodstick

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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #31 on: June 25, 2009, 11:07:08 pm »
well iam a southern bow builder so, osage without a doubt. its all over here in okie land.
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Offline burn em up chuck

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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #32 on: June 26, 2009, 12:02:32 am »
in order, yew, vinemaple,and the knew one is oceanspray, i hope to expand this list alot this year.

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Offline yazoo

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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #33 on: June 26, 2009, 11:30:00 am »
you mean people build bows out of woods besides osage ???
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Offline Ohio John

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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #34 on: June 26, 2009, 11:51:31 am »
 osage .... though even with the osage I still break 2 for every good bow....it takes time and practice to make good bows. My new place has lots of ash, hickory, and sassafras so I will be trying some other woods and reporting back sometime next summer
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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #35 on: June 26, 2009, 08:34:04 pm »
Black Locust and the Mulberry. Both are good for pretty much any type of bow.
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #36 on: June 26, 2009, 09:23:02 pm »
Osage, hickory, black locust and the oaks  are my favorites in no particular order depending on my mood. I usually hunt with hickory because it's local and osage is not. Makes me feel atavistic. :) Jawge
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Offline xin

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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #37 on: June 26, 2009, 09:24:17 pm »
Osage, best for any parameters applied.
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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #38 on: June 26, 2009, 11:37:24 pm »
morning ;D  i am getting older though.
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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #39 on: June 27, 2009, 12:00:24 am »
Quote from: sulphur on June 26, 2009, 11:37:24 pm
morning ;D  i am getting older though.


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Offline rossfactor

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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #40 on: June 27, 2009, 02:47:55 am »
Nice straight Purple Leaf Plum sprouts about 2.5" in diameter.  The first bow I ever was happy with was from one of these, and I've never forgotten it.  Gonna try another one pretty soon.
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Offline Ryano

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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #41 on: June 27, 2009, 07:22:14 am »
For self bows osage wins hands down. There's no other wood I've tried that can do what osage does, including yew.
 For laminated bows, Ipe is the best thing I've seen.
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Offline venisonburger

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Re: Whats Your Favorite Bow Wood?
« Reply #42 on: June 27, 2009, 05:08:53 pm »
Maple
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