Mulberry is one of the couple woods I have a good supply of, so I got a bit of experience with it. Mulberry is a very light wood, lighter than most maples typically, and makes a pretty bow that is light in the hand, my kind of bow wood,
. Unlike most people, I don't find much similarities between it and osage. It can be a bit springy sometimes, but is no where near as compression strong as osage, and in my experience will fret before hackberry. (which I haven't got to fret yet actually) It does typically have a lot of pin knots in it, the bigger the tree the less there are. Even when the tree appears to be knot free there are still typically a lot of pin knots. This all goes for wild red mulberry, I have a little experience with the more hedge garden variety kinda mulberry, but it is not as good as normal wild red mulberry. The pin knots like to open up as they dry if you don't chase a ring, and if violated can cause a failure pretty easily, for me anyway, so my advice is don't touch em and don't sand em.
