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Offline stuckinthemud

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garden apple sapwood remove?
« on: December 09, 2016, 11:30:18 am »
Evening!
I am working on an apple-wood D-bow, cut 6 months ago, I have dried it out til the weight stabilised and have just removed the bark and taken it to floor tiller.  Weight is a little high at the moment but before I take the weight down and tiller, do I need to remove the sapwood? Apple is ring-porous, I believe.  Its an eating-apple tree, not crab-apple.
Thanks 
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Offline PatM

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Re: garden apple sapwood remove?
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2016, 11:38:30 am »
No, and I wouldn't call Apple ring porous.
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Offline DC

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Re: garden apple sapwood remove?
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2016, 11:43:37 am »
The Wood Database says that apple is diffuse porous. I'm with Pat, I wouldn't remove the sapwood.
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Offline stuckinthemud

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Re: garden apple sapwood remove?
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2016, 11:58:34 am »
Ah the joys of tinternet, the site I glanced at said ring and I believed it even though I thought the wood looked otherwise.  Thanks both.  Really glad to keep the sapwood, trying to follow those rings would be a living nightmare!
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Offline bradsmith2010

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Re: garden apple sapwood remove?
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2016, 03:11:27 pm »
yes bow making can be challenging , no need to add nighmare to the equation  :)
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