« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2

Author Topic: White Mulberry ELB  (Read 10113 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

jcougar

  • Guest
White Mulberry ELB
« on: November 08, 2007, 06:56:12 pm »
Logged

Offline DanaM

  • Member
  • Posts: 9,211
Re: White Mulberry ELB
« Reply #1 on: November 08, 2007, 07:37:28 pm »
Looks pretty but I didn't see a full draw picture, did I miss it somehow?
Logged
"Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just money or things. Poverty is a way of living and thinking, and not just a lack of money or things."

Manistique, MI

Offline white wood

  • Member
  • Posts: 173
Re: White Mulberry ELB
« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2007, 10:30:57 pm »
very nice bow. little character in the grain very nice. how did you like working with mulberry?                   -whitewood
Logged
Jesse Buzzell
 Gorham, Maine

Offline adb

  • Member
  • Posts: 5,339
Re: White Mulberry ELB
« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2007, 11:37:23 pm »
Can you send a pic at full draw?
Logged

jcougar

  • Guest
Re: White Mulberry ELB
« Reply #4 on: November 08, 2007, 11:41:51 pm »
I don't think mulberry's working properties can really be compared to many other woods.  Honestly, the stave I have worked are a pain to get to one growth ring.  The rings are thick and easy to differentiate, but are much harder to cut through than osage or locust.  The rings just seem to not want to seperate at the early wood, which is good thing, I guess.
Logged

Offline Gordon

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,299
Re: White Mulberry ELB
« Reply #5 on: November 09, 2007, 02:18:06 am »
Good looking bow. Nice job on the tips and I like the cork handle.
Logged
Gordon

Far East Archer

  • Guest
Re: White Mulberry ELB
« Reply #6 on: November 09, 2007, 04:03:09 am »
Quote from: jcougar on November 08, 2007, 11:41:51 pm
I don't think mulberry's working properties can really be compared to many other woods.  Honestly, the stave I have worked are a pain to get to one growth ring.  The rings are thick and easy to differentiate, but are much harder to cut through than osage or locust.  The rings just seem to not want to seperate at the early wood, which is good thing, I guess.

I know exactly what you are talking about! Tried this while back thinking, "oh this will be a piece of cake, Look at those thick rings..." It was horrible!! lol But I love mulberry, nice wood. So white mulberry has no heartwood?? If so then I must have a crap load of white mulberry here. Ive always been disappointed when I cut a mulberry and don't see any heartwood, I thought I just had crap red mulberry but I guess it was just white mulberry all this time. :)

Very nice bow by the way! Looks lovely and the horn nocks look very well made! Got a FD pic? ;D

-Alex
Logged

jcougar

  • Guest
Re: White Mulberry ELB
« Reply #7 on: November 09, 2007, 07:56:25 am »
White mulberry does have heartwood, which this bow is entirely made of(I'm pretty sure that it is white mulberry, since the bark and leaves match the pics in my tree guide).
« Last Edit: November 09, 2007, 07:59:51 am by jcougar »
Logged

Offline cowboy

  • Member
  • Posts: 7,035
  • Paul Wolfe. Springtown, TX
Re: White Mulberry ELB
« Reply #8 on: November 09, 2007, 10:56:58 am »
Cool lookin bow, have never cut a mullberry - thought it was yellow like osage. Will have to try it one day.
Logged
When you come upon a track or trail you do not know, follow it to the point of knowing.

Far East Archer

  • Guest
Re: White Mulberry ELB
« Reply #9 on: November 09, 2007, 11:00:40 am »
Quote from: jcougar on November 09, 2007, 07:56:25 am
White mulberry does have heartwood, which this bow is entirely made of(I'm pretty sure that it is white mulberry, since the bark and leaves match the pics in my tree guide).


lol my bad.. Guess I really do got crap mulberry lol
Logged

Offline OldBow

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,216
  • I'm just an old retired biology teacher.
Re: White Mulberry ELB
« Reply #10 on: November 09, 2007, 01:14:17 pm »
I never did see a full draw and working through photobucket to look for it is rather tedious. If you would like to have this bow submitted for Nov Self Bow of the Month, you might post it directly on PA's site or email it to me.
Thanks.
OldBow
Logged
When you're retired, every day is Saturday

jcougar

  • Guest
Re: White Mulberry ELB
« Reply #11 on: November 09, 2007, 06:18:53 pm »
Thanks to all!  Don, I haven't had a chance to get a full draw pic.  As soon as I do I'll post it.
Logged

jcougar

  • Guest
Re: White Mulberry ELB
« Reply #12 on: November 11, 2007, 06:34:29 pm »
Logged

Offline jpitts

  • Member
  • Posts: 313
Re: White Mulberry ELB
« Reply #13 on: November 12, 2007, 12:29:39 am »
She's a beauty. You did a great job on those horn nocks too. Looks like something the Thompson brothers may have carried.
Logged
Jimmy / Dallas, Georgia

Offline Pat B

  • Administrator
  • Member
  • Posts: 37,609
Re: White Mulberry ELB
« Reply #14 on: November 12, 2007, 12:45:03 am »
Very nice bow as always J.  8) Full draw looks right on!   
  Alex, Could you have Paper Mulberry?(Broussonetia papyrifera)  In the Moraceae family. I had a large paper mulberry tree in my yard when I lived in Savannah, Ga. years ago.  The leaves feel like velvet and some leaves are lobed.   Pat
Logged
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC
Pages: [1] 2
« previous next »