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Offline bassman

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Re: Red Maple for Bow Wood?
« Reply #15 on: May 05, 2019, 03:13:36 pm »
Smart thinking. Hope you have a winner.
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Offline IrishJay

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Re: Red Maple for Bow Wood?
« Reply #16 on: May 05, 2019, 04:08:13 pm »
I told myself that I was going to keep this a nice and simple, straight limbed selfbow. But, then I did some heat straightening on the one limb and saw how well this wood does with heat forming. I couldnt help myself, added some R/D, net reflex is just a tad shy of 3.5". Hopefully with proper belly tempering and careful tiller the tips will stay positive.

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Offline okie64

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Re: Red Maple for Bow Wood?
« Reply #17 on: May 05, 2019, 05:32:00 pm »
Keep an eye on the belly while tillering. Every soft maple I’ve worked fretted pretty bad for no obvious reason.
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Offline Mountain Man1

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Re: Red Maple for Bow Wood?
« Reply #18 on: May 25, 2019, 03:16:38 pm »
I just split out a beautiful red maple stave, not realizing how poorly regarded it is for bows. Hopefully you have good luck and I can draw some ideas from you when the time comes. Looking good so far, did you hear trsat the belly yet? Might avoid fretting that way when you tiller
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Offline IrishJay

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Re: Red Maple for Bow Wood?
« Reply #19 on: May 25, 2019, 07:34:51 pm »
Even with a good heat treat the belly chrysaled very badly as soon I tried to get it bending. Never made it past floor tiller.
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Offline Mountain Man1

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Re: Red Maple for Bow Wood?
« Reply #20 on: May 26, 2019, 03:45:08 am »
Uh oh, that's not very encouraging. Hopefully I have better luck with mine, time will tell. Its clamped up and drying for now
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Offline bassman

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Re: Red Maple for Bow Wood?
« Reply #21 on: May 26, 2019, 05:13:03 am »
Irish,that was my experience with soft maple.Now if you can get a stave of rock, or sugar maple as it is some times called you can make a really nice bow.We all live and learn.
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