Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Blaflair2 on September 18, 2013, 04:25:22 pm
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Can I back a red oak bow with tiger maple?
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Nope. Tiger, curly, quilted or whatever else kind of figured maple gets it figure from irregular grain flow. Everyone of those pretty stripes is a grain violation. Josh
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Nope. Tiger, curly, quilted or whatever else kind of figured maple gets it figure from irregular grain flow. Everyone of those pretty stripes is a grain violation. Josh
+1 Josh is right. Think of it as a real roller coaster of a stave that you just cut all of the hills and valleys out of and made it flat. All kinds of violations :)
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Would it be an ok core wood?
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not being able to see much of it would be a bit of a waste in my opinion, but would probably work, just not as well as other types of wood for core material. even just flat grain hard maple would preform better i would guess but for ascetics It would not be as flashy
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Hard rock maple is a good core wood like red elm. I think that unless you were going to put it under glass it wouldn't as back or belly wood.
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I used a piece of curly maple for the core of a backed bow and WOW was I impressed! I've never seen so many frets in a bow, anywhere, ever. Actually, that bow had more frets in it than all the bows I've ever seen combined.
I didn't waste any more of it, and put the rest of that beautiful wood in glass bows.