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Offline stuckinthemud

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most beautiful timber?
« on: January 09, 2016, 05:08:29 pm »
Not the most beautiful bow, or the best bow-wood, what do you rate as the prettiest bow-wood?

For me, for the time-being its character yew: two-tone colour and all those curves.....
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Offline TimBo

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Re: most beautiful timber?
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2016, 05:53:53 pm »
Eastern Red Cedar, if it stayed reddish-purple...which it doesn't.  Yew is pretty hard to beat.
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Offline Hrothgar

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Re: most beautiful timber?
« Reply #2 on: January 09, 2016, 06:20:18 pm »
Osage orange gets my vote, the grain in ash can look really sharp when its stained.
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Offline bubby

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Re: most beautiful timber?
« Reply #3 on: January 09, 2016, 06:37:02 pm »
I've seen some ugly bows, but it wasn't the woods fault😉
Lots of pretty woods tigerwood epe yew osage hhb but they are prettier drawn ready to let fly
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Offline dirthas

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Re: most beautiful timber?
« Reply #4 on: January 09, 2016, 06:37:31 pm »
The prettiest I think I've seen in person is red cedar, but the look of laburnum really impressed me when I saw it on here: http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=41863.0
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Offline Bryce

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Re: most beautiful timber?
« Reply #5 on: January 09, 2016, 06:58:00 pm »
Hands down....yew


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Offline richardzane

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Re: most beautiful timber?
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2016, 07:26:15 pm »
I sure like persimmon ...with the light sap wood against the dark
but that yew of Bryce's is sure purty
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Offline bubby

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Re: most beautiful timber?
« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2016, 08:09:59 pm »


Black walnut and paper birch is pretty
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Offline wizardgoat

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Re: most beautiful timber?
« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2016, 08:12:47 pm »
Yew and Rocky Mountain juniper get my vote.
I really like the darker coloured Osage too
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: most beautiful timber?
« Reply #9 on: January 09, 2016, 08:13:33 pm »
Curly osage







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Offline DanD

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Re: most beautiful timber?
« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2016, 08:28:48 pm »
My 2 bow I ever started was a beutiful walnut stave that with no warning what so ever exploded during tillering, I thought that it was going to be the most gorgeous bow when I got done with it but fire wood it became, lol
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Offline PatM

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Re: most beautiful timber?
« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2016, 09:29:50 pm »
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Re: most beautiful timber?
« Reply #12 on: January 10, 2016, 03:44:42 am »
Ebony...but don't tell anyone I said that! Yes, it makes a good self bow if you have the money to buy it and are willing to trust the words "legally harvested" . Looks like obsidian when you are done sanding it.
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: most beautiful timber?
« Reply #13 on: January 10, 2016, 05:00:08 am »
Yew... did anyone say Yew yet? O:)
Or just maybe Yew ;D
I think Bryce proved the point with his pic (I'm still droolin').
Most of the pretty laminates are merely mimicking the two tone Yew look.
Del
(Laburnum (AKA Golden chain etc) is also pretty)
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Offline Dances with squirrels

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Re: most beautiful timber?
« Reply #14 on: January 10, 2016, 08:32:41 am »
Yew.
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