Does some woods hold heat longer? & bow build

[Selfbowman]

Willie what I’m trying to say is this hickory is as dense as Osage!here is 50# bows with the mass written on the blue tape. The Osage handle have more mass .the narrow recurve weighs about the same.

[Selfbowman]

Pic same order.

[superdav95]

Very interesting Arvin.  The hickory seems to have less set then the Osage bows pictured there.  I realize you didn’t retain as much set as you were hoping for on this one but as far a a first go at heat treated hickory bow I’d say it’s pretty dang good!