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Offline paulc

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Pecan any good?
« on: August 28, 2020, 05:55:16 pm »
Anyone work with it? Long and wide?

May come into some in next couple weeks...

Paul
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Chestnut any good?
« Reply #1 on: August 28, 2020, 06:00:13 pm »
Not for bows but makes beautiful furniture and bow racks.
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Offline Yooper Bowyer

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Re: Chestnut any good?
« Reply #2 on: August 28, 2020, 06:52:28 pm »
Where do you get it?

I wouldn't want to cut endangered trees.
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Offline paulc

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Re: Chestnut any good?
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2020, 07:47:22 pm »
Ha!!! wrong tree!  I have access to pecan, not chestnut :-)
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Pecan any good?
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2020, 08:58:56 pm »
Pecan is a hickory and is a good bow wood.
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Re: Pecan any good?
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2020, 07:16:01 am »
pecan is a great bow wood.. from hickory family... gut
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Offline Hamish

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Re: Pecan any good?
« Reply #6 on: August 31, 2020, 04:44:56 pm »
Yep, its a good bow wood. Very strong in tension. A friend made one of his first bows from pecan, it has big drawknife gouges on the back, yet shows no sign of degradation. I was amazed that it hadn't broken.

Like the other fellas said it in the hickory family, good for bows.
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: Pecan any good?
« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2020, 07:52:41 am »
Years ago Tim Baker won one of the Mojam self bow speed tests with a pecan bow.  Jawge
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