Any experience with quebracho wood, or axe breaker as its known?

[Yellowstave]

Any of you pros ever used any of this wood. Supposed to be twice as hard as osage. How would you get it?

[Pat B]

Never heard of it. Where is it from?

[maitus]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebracho_tree

[BowEd]

Great mention and info fellas.An insight look into he origins of the powder used whlle what they call bark tannng.I still have some of this powder from a company.
For bow wood I know nothing about it.One question I would have about it how elastic it is to be bow wood.

[maitus]

For bow wood I know nothing about it.

"It!?! There is at least 25 species that call quebracho ... All they have different wood qualities.

[BowEd]

For bow wood I know nothing about it.

"It!?! There is at least 25 species that call quebracho ... All they have different wood qualities.

Let us know with pictures the bows you've made from it.

[Yellowstave]

All I know is that it's Spanish. The wood index has info

[BowEd]

No worries Yellowstave....Ask mr. encyclopedia.

[Yellowstave]

Most of you guys could fit that bill BowEd.

[maitus]

For bow wood I know nothing about it.

"It!?! There is at least 25 species that call quebracho ... All they have different wood qualities.

Let us know with pictures the bows you've made from it.

Didn't You read that IT will break axes and  draw knifes obviously as well? So how to make bow from IT ?

[PatM]

We know there a point of diminishing returns for wood hardness indicating suitability for bows.  This is likely one of those.

[BowEd]

Anyone who's made a couple hundred successful bows out of 8 different types of wood and designs and posted dozens on this site as I have can read between the lines as to the suitability of a wood for bow making.
With me being into tanning leather also it's interesting.Although I seem to remember long ago reading that quebracho was gotten from a tree in South America and seems to be it's main money making commodity value.Tannin can be gotten from plain old oak bark though too.
For use on a bow possibly overlays in a nonbending stiff area of the bow.
Metal edges dull with the use of them on sage pretty regularly.
It still is an IT.


 

[Bubbabowyer]

If one of our Spanish brothers could figure out how to cut one and ship it to me, I'd be happy to see exactly how many licks it would take to get to the centrr of that tootsie pop lol

[PatM]

It's not actually from Spain.

[Bubbabowyer]

Oops, I meant .....Jamaica!