That's another beautiful bow Marc. You get an amazing amount of bend out of that heat treated elm. Do you think it's a variety of red, or grey elm, or some hybrid? I never learned much about the different species. Where I grew up in Vermont, we were at enough elevation to be just outside the range of anything but white elm, and all the big ones died out in the mid 80s. I probably had red elm on my property in the Champlain Islsnds and didn't know it. I just remember the heartwood was pretty dark on alot of the standing dead ones I used for firewood. I had a beautiful 4 acre stand of white ash with elms scattered through it. Wish I had never sold it now, but I wasn't making bows back then. 20-20 hindsight strikes again.
