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Offline bowsandroses

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opinion on mullberry
« on: November 30, 2013, 02:02:33 am »
Just curious for bow wood see on E-bay pretty cheap good, bad, mediocre what do you guys think of it.
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Offline Hillbilly

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Re: opinion on mullberry
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2013, 08:56:38 am »
Mulberry is excellent bow wood, IMO. I've made both flatbows and stacked-belly longbows from it. The type I have used is red mulberry (Morus rubra.) Osage is in the mulberry family, and mulberry is just osage lite, pretty much.
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Offline Joec123able

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Re: opinion on mullberry
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2013, 12:39:13 pm »
Mulberry is good its incredibly easy to work for how good of a bow you can yet out of it.
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