Chinquapin oak bow anyone???

[sweeney3]

Has anyone made a chinquapin oak bow?  It's in the white oak family, and therefor *should* be quite tough and strong wood.  I am curious as I see a lot of it around here.  I have noticed several with no signs of twist.  They looked like good, clean wood and I just think it would be neat to make a bow out of all the white oak family I can find.  Why not?  If anyone has a good reason to not, or knows of any peculiarities, please jump in!

[Hillbilly]

It should work fine-chestnut oak, chinquapin oak, and post oak are probably sold as white oak lumber on a regular basis.

[yazoo]

I would hold out and find a hickory, elm or hornbeam the early wood on a chinquapin will look like a spounge,,,   I have seen some great bow from oak but they are rare,,,,

 my bow makin poem..

hickory is for ax handles
ash is for ball bats
mullberry makes good jelly
red oak makes a good rockin chair
white oak makes good whisky barrels
ipe makes great decks
locust makes good fence posts
osage is for bows

[El Destructo]

                                          Yazoo.........Don't give up the Day Job.........

[medicinewheel]

El D you ignorant! That's a FREE FORM poem and not supposed to have rimes or rhythms whatsoever...! 

[Pappy]

 
   Pappy

[sweeney3]

Heh heh...nice

[recurve shooter]

so.......what exactly makes it a poem? looks like a random string of thoughts to me. 

eh, what do i know, at least yall can still feel your tungs huh?

[Kent D.]

Ive made several white oak bows.  Great in tension, but do take lots of set.  Easy wood to work with.  It is actually the wood I learned with.

[Josh]

yeah so does red oak.  It's like for me 2.5 inches of stringfollow is about the norm for red oak.  Although I just finished a red oak board bow that ended up being flat after heating around 4" of reflex before final tiller...