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Offline Kegan

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Re: Best woods for narrow profiles?
« Reply #15 on: February 24, 2009, 08:11:29 pm »
Just finished a white oak semi-ELB. Flat, heavily tempered belly, about 70#. Didn't take alot of set, and 1 1/4" at the widest. With 5/16" tips, it's my sweetest shooting bow yet.

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Re: Best woods for narrow profiles?
« Reply #16 on: February 24, 2009, 09:35:34 pm »
 I have to back Hillbilly and the Thompson Brothers up on Mulberry. I've seen and have some from N.C., and the stuff we have in Fl is a lot denser and is almost as yellow as Osage.
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Re: Best woods for narrow profiles?
« Reply #17 on: February 24, 2009, 11:52:55 pm »
Badger,

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Re: Best woods for narrow profiles?
« Reply #18 on: February 25, 2009, 01:57:03 pm »
Eddie, the NC stuff I gave you is good wood, though-I've made a few out of the same tree. It's bright yellow when it's freshly worked, but it ages to a yellowish brown. You can leave some sapwood on the back and make an ELB that looks almost like a yew bow.
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Re: Best woods for narrow profiles?
« Reply #19 on: February 25, 2009, 02:29:25 pm »
any wood with an s/g higher of .75 ? :)
blackthorn and hawthorne, oceanspray. All very heavy woods, but in small sizes,  they give gorgeous narrow character bows

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Re: Best woods for narrow profiles?
« Reply #20 on: February 25, 2009, 02:55:07 pm »
what nobody says Ipe....probably the absolute best narrow bow wood available...gut

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Re: Best woods for narrow profiles?
« Reply #21 on: February 25, 2009, 04:20:49 pm »
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what nobody says Ipe....probably the absolute best narrow bow wood available...gut


Gut, he was asking about native North American woods. Ipe is a great narrow bow wood, but it ain't from around here. :)
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