Green wood to great bow?..from tbb 1.

[Prarie Bowyer]

I read the section on making green wood bows from. The bowyers bible v.1.  I thought these were for survival bows that you throw away.

Is this worth doing? 

Am I going to ruin some wood trying this?

[bubbles]

Didn't one of the authors take a bear with a "green" bow he made the day of the hunt as a backup?  I seem to remember that, so it seems like it could be done.

[raylbird]

I have made one bow with just cut Black Locust. The bark peeled off by hand the day I split it. I roughed out the bow that day, left it in the shed for a week with a fan blowing on it and finished and shot it. The bow took very little set and was one of my fastest shooters. It is such a joy to work with soft wood. I never measured the finished moisture content but it was certainly not terribly high after a week.