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birdpointlightstring32

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your thoughts on a high humidity design around 12 percent.
« on: November 12, 2014, 01:37:52 am »
Just curious my two cents . 75 inches long or longer. slightly over built? as suggested by others maybe yew locust or maybe a wood that is tension weak and compression strong.
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Re: your thoughts on a high humidity design around 12 percent.
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2014, 03:12:27 am »
Yew or ipe. Ipe is superb in humidity. Any design will work if you start with the right materials.
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Offline Parnell

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Re: your thoughts on a high humidity design around 12 percent.
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2014, 12:06:23 pm »
Simple.  Make any bow out of Osage.
Doesn't get much more humid than where I live and Osage doesn't seem to be affected.
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Offline huisme

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Re: your thoughts on a high humidity design around 12 percent.
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2014, 12:41:31 pm »
Locust is fine with humidity and makes fast bows even therein.
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50#@26"
Black locust. Black locust everywhere.
Mollegabets all day long.
Might as well make them short, save some wood to keep warm.

Offline Springbuck

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Re: your thoughts on a high humidity design around 12 percent.
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2014, 01:28:39 pm »
Also most good white woodsdo better in humidity after heat treating the belly.  Still likely not as good as ipe, but....
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