question about mulberry

[crooketarrow]

  Mullberrys a cousin to osage, Treat it as if it was osage. Use the heart wood like osage remove the bark then sap wood down to the ring you want. It's always best to use the ring under the sap wood. with any bow.

Build your bow. I've built 6 mullberry bows. They all turned out just find. Good speed,good cast, good natural color.

[rkeltner]

I have some mulberry in my garage that has been on the backburner because of how insanely hard the sapwood turned after drying. don't know if that's common, but the stuff turned stringy and just doesn't want to be cut, even with a scary sharp draw knife. if it didn't have some shallow surface checks, I'd be tempted to leave it on and try without chasing a ring! my next option is an angle grinder with an aggressive sanding wheel!