Question: Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea) desing

[Strichev]

I have a nice dogwood stave ready; it has a somewhat high crowned back and it's 40 mm wide in it's current state (it's roughed out somewhat already) Having never worked with it before I wonder what sort of belly design would work? Flat or D section? The English Warbow Society says that dogwood is compression strong (except the knots) so I'm thinking about making a nice deep yew-like cross section.

It has only one knot about 6 mm wide pretty much around where the arrow pass is going to be, so I'm not too worried about it.

Apart from that - if anyone has any advice, please share.

[Hrothgar]

Never used dogwood, but based on your info and stave dimensions your plan sounds good.

[Springbuck]

Dogwood is compression strong, but it is harder and stiffer than yew.  I would use a starting dimension about like the yew, but count on having to thin the limbs more than on a yew bow, meaning a flattened oval cross section or similar in some parts of the limb.