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Offline JoJoDapyro

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Service berry compression?
« on: June 14, 2016, 11:18:04 am »
How is service berry in compression? Would it make a good belly wood under boo?
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Service berry compression?
« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2016, 11:40:29 am »
Western serviceberry is better bow wood than Eastern serviceberry but neither would be good with boo backing IMO.
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Offline DC

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Re: Service berry compression?
« Reply #2 on: June 14, 2016, 12:46:36 pm »
Just a question. Service Berry makes a very "serviceable" bow (see what I did there ;D ;D ;D) why would you want to back it? Are you hoping to get an even better bow or do you just have a thin piece of Service Berry?
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Re: Service berry compression?
« Reply #3 on: June 14, 2016, 01:02:59 pm »
No, I have a bigger log. It grows in abundance close to my house. It is a short section, so I will have to do billets. I was under the impression that it should be backed. Dried just about a years now.
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Offline Jim Davis

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Re: Service berry compression?
« Reply #4 on: June 14, 2016, 01:14:42 pm »
Almost all woods are at least three times as strong in tension as compression. (Exceptions being cherry and red cedar.) So the only good reason to back a wooden bow is if the grain on the back has been violated.

I found Maine service berry to be OK. My best one was made of a sapling. Limbs were only about 1-1/4" wide and bow was about 68" ntn. #40 at 28.
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Re: Service berry compression?
« Reply #5 on: June 15, 2016, 12:45:29 am »
Serviceberry in my experience is good in compression and tension. I'm not sure which is better. I back it to give it more spring. It is similar to chokecherry in compression and arrow speed with better tension. With a sinew backing on both a D bow will draw 50%+ the length of the bow and last years.
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