Red elm - super stave!!

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Today I started working with red elm. Was pleasantly surprised When I split.
This is for longbow - 75 ", 1 1/3 wide and just over 1" thick. Sapwood is about 3/8 "along the entire length.
George

[RyanY]

Looks like a great candidate for a warbow! 

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Ye, 74", 1.3x1.1" whit 1-2 heat treating could be 100-110#

[Pat B]

No pics!

[Zion]

Sweet Jesus you are making a warbow out of that right???!!! Ya better!!

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Hi guys,
This is what I wanted to get as weight - # 70-80
It is 73" long 32х26mm in center and 12х12мм. Pulling 68# to 29" and about 76# to 32". Lower limb is strong reflex and looks solid.
Full Draw pictures then after finale.











George

[DarkSoul]

Very nice George! Clean and simple. This makes the best looking elm.
When I was in Bulgaria for the Paleoplanet Euromeets, I've seen some very nice elm growing all around. I think it's probably one of the best woods in that area, although I've also been very impressed with the black locust.

[soy]

Looks very nice...I was concerned at first when I seen some dog legs in the first pics...must have steamed them out,lol  

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Thank guys!
Jorik, here in the area around me has a lot of red elm. We started to put it as the cores of the composite bows. Behaves perfectly.
Here is 90#

[Hrothgar]

Nice looking bows! You really have the composites down to a science. Are the joints wrapped with artificial sinew?
Eric

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Are the joints wrapped with artificial sinew?
Eric

No, artificial sinew will not do a good job!

[mikekeswick]

Lovely bow from the elm. 
Your hornbow is impressive it looks like it could throw spears!! I'm just making a Turkish hornbow at the moment and it good to see other people with cores ready to go. I am surprised that your red elm works for hornbow cores as my first hornbows core was made from wych elm. When I was tillering it for seemingly no reason the core sheered along an earlywood ring...it was an impressive break! I have never used red elm so don't know much about it but would you not prefer to use a diffuse porous wood?

[DuBois]

Nice job man!

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Mike, you will be surprised at what can be made cores. This is a composite core. By a number of tree species.





I worked also with Acer tataricum/hard to find a good piece of it/, ash, maple.

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Background, no coment!!
28" draw.