Anybody made a birch molly?

[dbb]

I'm starting to like those quirky looking bows, and since birch is the only reasonably dry wood i have im gonna try it if nobody says it isnt wort the trouble....
i probably try anyway but then i know what to expect.

/Mikael

[Jude]

Most folks report good luck with birch.  I had bad luck with Alaskan white birch, but I believe that is an exceptionally weak variety.  The Athabaskans made birch bows with string blocks, so the bows had nearly no tension at brace hieght, so evidently, I wasn't the first to run into that problem.

[DEllis]

My experience with paper birch has been that you need to use as much of the limb as you can as evenly as you can. It will fret if you give it any chance at all. Maybe with a fairly wide limb and long NTN you might get away with it?? Try it and let us know
Darcy

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Looks like i have a challenge at hand,thats fun :)Perhaps the swedish downy and silverbirches is stronger than paperbirch...i hope.
Darcy,when you posted that birch longbow and said it liked long and deep i just knew i would have to make a short wide and flat one ..Just kidding.
Birch is what i have available and i need the training.Ill keep you guys posted however it goes.

/Mikael