Take my words with a grain of salt because I've never had a mulberry stave. But I've heard this mulberry tends to have wide rings. So that being said if it's Osage, a blind man can chase a ring on that stave.
What is your draw length and weight you want to hit? Do you want a stiff handle on a bendy? That is a nice stave. I personally would do a bendy with the handle section being a little on the stiff side. But my draw length is 27in. Now I do have a bow that I hunt with that is 57 ntn with a stiff handle but it's a flat bow design with a little reflex. It's also a character bow from a 75 year old Osage fence post. What I'm getting at is you can make what ever you want to a point. It's all in the design and tiller. Patrick
thanks i know for sure that its osage not mulberry
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(i have both woods in my garage and the tree this came off of was massive)
bendy handles are the norm for me, that said if i let this one flex in the handle it will be just a tiny bit i dont want to over do it with the deflex already present.
goal is 27-28in draw and mid 50s to 60s in weight but that shouldn't be to hard, most of the time i come in over weight not under lol
Sounds good to me looks like the wood is already offering itself to be a RD design.
yeah thats what i thought after i had my ring chased, this wasn't the original plan but when a stave is saying so clearly what it wants to be how can you refuse it
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another thought i had after posting was to splice in some static recurves
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