Hawthorn

[freke]

Hi everone,
I have been away for awhile drop in time to time but not post anything for long time.
Have been building some but not been very productive, but I have indeed spent the time shooting.

Well, I was out today and found a piece of Hawthorn from a old tree that had been taken down.
The only clean part I found was unfortunately not a big piece sizing only 49", the piece looks straight and flat but seems to me too short - any suggestions what to do with it? is it good bow wood?

Thanks, Jonas

[meanewood]

Can you cut it down the center and splice in the handle and add a riser if its not deep enough?

Hawthorn is a great bow wood but don't try to split it.

[Sammakesbows]

You could do a sinew backed design, perhaps with recurves to reduce set

[Sammakesbows]

You could do a sinew backed design, perhaps with recurves to reduce set

I meant stack

[bownarra]

Cut in half and splice.

[freke]

Sounds great to know its a good wood:)
Took some pictures, can say other halve looked really bad and after bad areas cut off it looks better than first impression.
 It looks to me very difficult to cut it long side and than splice it and get two descent pieces to work with, but I will take a look at it.

As the pieces is fairly straight and clean along centre line did I thinking of splice static tips instead (something I never done but could work), or make a shorter bow.

How dose hawthorn dry, is there any big problem with checking? If may memory not fail it do check badly. So far have I only considered seal the ends and let the open cut be unsealed.

[meanewood]

Hawthorn will check badly if dried too quickly.
I'd seal that exposed area as well as the ends.

[freke]

Thanks, I will seal all exposed areas.

[mmattockx]

thinking of splice static tips instead

This was going to be my suggestion. Splicing on levers/siyahs/recurve tips will let you pick your finished length to suit the draw length you want and add whatever accent/contrast colours or trim you like.


Mark