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Offline bigcountry

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White Oak for backing?
« on: May 23, 2011, 09:17:55 pm »
Is white oak as good as hickory or bamboo for a osage or IPE bow?  I have found some straight quartersawn pieces. 
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Offline toymaker

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Re: White Oak for backing?
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2011, 09:40:07 pm »
I have heard it is, however my last attempt was a Ash backed with white oak.....It cracked during tillering.
The backing was about .080 which may have been too thin.


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Offline bigcountry

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Re: White Oak for backing?
« Reply #2 on: May 23, 2011, 09:51:51 pm »
Thats disappointing.  Thanks for the feedback
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Offline Badger

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Re: White Oak for backing?
« Reply #3 on: May 23, 2011, 09:58:11 pm »
  I recently started playing around with white oak backing, I did a wo/ipe and a wo/osage. Both seemed to perform as well as anything else but 2 bows I would not call conclusive.
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Offline jonathan creason

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Re: White Oak for backing?
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2011, 11:35:55 pm »
I've never tried it, but I know Ken and Rich are both fans of white oak for backing strips.  Hopefully they'll chime in with their results.
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Offline ken75

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Re: White Oak for backing?
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2011, 12:55:03 am »
ive only had one failure with it  out of half a dozen bows . it splintered but didnt break all the way through , the backing was removed and belly reused . pay attention to grain swirls thats what got mine
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Offline bigcountry

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Re: White Oak for backing?
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2011, 01:32:52 am »
The guy that has some said he had 10,000 BF and much of it is quarter sawn.  I hope to find a few pieces with straight grain.
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Offline bubby

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Re: White Oak for backing?
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2011, 07:36:11 am »
I've used white oak quite a bit for backing, epe, maple, and in lam limbs on takedowns and r&d bows, with no failures yet, usually get mine out of the center of a double ring board, Bub
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: White Oak for backing?
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2011, 09:30:31 am »
I bet ya white oak backed white oak would make a real nice R/D bow.
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Offline bubby

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Re: White Oak for backing?
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2011, 03:21:50 pm »
yeah PD,I posted a 3 pc bow awhile back and the limbs were w oak-maple-w oak, it shot real smooth, Bub
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