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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: paulsemp on February 06, 2012, 07:13:11 am

Title: surger maple?
Post by: paulsemp on February 06, 2012, 07:13:11 am: Got a couple of sugar maples that need to come down. I have always thought of it as the garbage of maples. Some of the people on here have done things that I did not think is possible with different woods. Have any of you made a bow from it or is it just wishful thinking?
Title: Re: surger maple?
Post by: Marc St Louis on February 06, 2012, 09:39:01 am: Garbage? Don't know where you got that idea. Sugar Maple makes excellent bows and I have made many of them with it. Up here it is 3rd on my list of preferred local bow making wood, better than White Ash but below HHB and Elm. Do not let it sit around for long without splitting as bugs love it
Title: Re: surger maple?
Post by: Josh B on February 06, 2012, 09:55:15 am: I've made a few from sugar maple and love the wood. Unfortunately , the only maple commonly found where I live is silver maple, which is the worst of the maples. As far as I know anyway. Josh

Here is one I made last year from a hard(sugar)maple-
Title: Re: surger maple?
Post by: jeffhalfrack on February 06, 2012, 05:58:07 pm: Are we talking the broad leaf maple like the Canadian flag??? allways wondered we have lots of them round here JeffW
Title: Re: surger maple?
Post by: paulsemp on February 06, 2012, 06:02:14 pm: hey Gun Doc, I did not know that sugar maple is the same as hard maple sold in lumber yards
Title: Re: surger maple?
Post by: Josh B on February 06, 2012, 06:33:22 pm: Hard maple is sort of a generic term used to describe several species of the denser variety maples. Just like white or red oak could include several different species of oaks that are somewhat similar. Same thing with hickory lumber. Josh
Title: Re: surger maple?
Post by: paulsemp on February 06, 2012, 09:08:18 pm: Gun Doc, thank you for the info . I always wondered why my tree book did not have "hard maple" in it!!!!