Buckthorn Flatbow

[Pappy]

Nice job Jonas, beautiful bow, simple and effective.
 Pappy

[leonwood]

This bow and the wood look beautiful! Never worked Buckthorn so I can't comment about if it is a bow wood or not but I like the attitude of "just go for it and make a bow". Well done!

[Aaron H]

Beautiful bow

[Del the cat]

Ooooh that's pretty, I like it when you can see the central pith either end of the grip
Del

[Philipp A]

Great looking bow! Love the tiller on it and the colour contrasts.

[Jonas]

Thank you!

[BowEd]

Jonas...I see your point and to a degree and to be honest that might help but will give you even more set yet though.More width and thinner is the only thing to counter that,or more length.That's a good eliptical tiller you made there.

[hoosierf]

Beautifully done. I love it. I have a hunch that Simson may be correct. My buckthorn bows and staves don't have the rippled back.

[Jonas]

Now I m getting confused 
I found this https://mnfi.anr.msu.edu/invasive-species/GlossyBuckthornBCP.pdf and I think the leaves looked like common buckthorn as shown there. Initially I took the bugthorn for dogwood, I dont think this would have happenend it it was glossy buckthorn. On the other hand, glossy buckthorn is known for growing at wetlands whereas common buckthorn uses to grow at open fields or woodlands - the place where I found the trees was defininitly a wetland.
I ll have to got to the place again, maybe my memory is deceiving me about the leaves.

[simson]

I looked into my stave pile.
Now I'm sure, what you have here is not the common buckthorn - you have glossy buckthorn. Marginal, or no bowwood.

As said, I admire your work. But my tip is to use better wood. No offense!

[Jonas]

Non taken  Still have to check the place to believe it  . I ll also shoot the bow now and then, see if it breaks - the actual performance is  not bad, I have ash and elm bows which are way slower than this one.

[hoosierf]

Jonas, take a look at the bark. The bark difference is more evident than the leaf difference. Common buckthorn has a dark gray birch or Aspen like texture with a bit of an iridescent green to it, where the glossy has more of a ruff texture to it. I've never used glossy for a bow so I have no POV on durability, etc.  What is interesting about your bow is that you have an good mix of sap and heartwood like yew so I hope it lasts forever for you.