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Offline NTD

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ABO or OBA
« on: July 14, 2010, 11:28:02 pm »
Quiick, maybe simple question.  Osage backed ash or ash backed osage?  Both woods are quarter sawn.
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Re: ABO or OBA
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2010, 11:41:35 pm »
I think osage is better in compression than ash, so i would go ash backed osage.  I could be wrong maybe someone who has done this combo before will chime in with some thickness ratios... Good luck on your bow, Nate!   :) 
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: ABO or OBA
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2010, 11:42:02 pm »
HA! Trick question!  Do both.
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Re: ABO or OBA
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2010, 11:45:00 pm »
Thanks Josh, Just broke an ash backed purple heart that I was making for a friends 11 yr old daighter, but the failure was the PH.  So on to the next one.  I'm trimming some thickness off from an osage board I have and wanted to be able to put that 1/8" to 3/16' slab to use.  I'm only aiming to make a 22-24# bow at maybe 24"
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Re: ABO or OBA
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2010, 11:48:08 pm »
The osage will be 1 3/4" wide.  Maybe if I rip them and glue them together I will have 7/8" wide and 1/4"-3/8" core to back with ash....
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