Plum ALB

[Badger]

  Thats a beauty Mark. Nice to see plum represented this way.

[Badly Bent]

Excellent bow Marc.  I especially like that full draw bend, your tillers always look great to me.
I just recently received a fine bow of plum from Idaho Matt in a trade, I'm very impressed with the bow and plum wood.

[Marc St Louis]

Thanks guys

Hard to see in the pictures but the stave developed a split starting at that black knot and going almost to the back of the handle that went pretty deep.  Much of it disappeared when shaping the handle and what was left I filled with crazy glue

Something I found with Plum is that I have to take some of the bark off for drying otherwise the sapwood gets a peculiar discoloration which I don't like.

I went with a linen string on this bow, 20 strands of some very good quality linen I picked up online.  The string finished up at about 1/8" in diameter with a 350# break strength.  Very good performance out of this bow and it has high string tension.

[Selfbowman]

Nice bow Mark. I have never had the opportunity to work any plum. Don't think that I could end up with those results though.  Arvin

[DuBois]

Always like your bows Marc.
Very nice!

[George Tsoukalas]

Marc, that is a might fine bow. Nicely done. Jawge

[Marc St Louis]

Thank you guys

If you can do it with Osage then you can do it with Plum Arvin

[Aaron H]

Another great looking bow Marc.   Spot on tiller as usual