dogwood bow

[rockhound34]

Is dogwood good bow making material? I been making bows out of osage for the last 3 years. osage is what I learned on,never tried any other wood.

[ricktrojanowski]

I've never worked with dogwood but I've read it makes great bows.  GregB from the site made an outstanding bow from Dogwood.  You should check it out.

[ken75]

rock, i did an advance search and came up with some interesting reading , i think if you do the same it should answer your questions . from what i read it makes good bows , scrape it out and post some pics i'd like to see it !

[wodpow]

I have made a few small tree trunk bows from the same dogwood that I have made arrow shafts from.  They have high crowns  and had to be backed.  I used deer raw hide from mostly yearling does because it's thinner than old buck hide and don't slow the limbs as much.  I have found that if you keep the poundage down around 55 # it will shoot for a long time.   That wood  really surprised me one shoots 515 Gr.arrows to 162 fps then dropped to about 160 after the third arrow and stayed right about there.

[GregB]

I really like my dogwood bow and how it shoots. It was the bow I shot all summer until I finished a snake bow that I've been hunting with. I plan to hunt with my dogwood bow later if I can ever get a deer with the snake bow first. You can check my dogwood out on January BOM 2009. I didn't back the bow with anything...other then flint flakes!

[Hillbilly]

I'm working on one now. So far I'm impressed.

[luke the drifter]

Is not dogwood a fairly dense wood with very close growth rings?  i imagine chasing a ring would be difficult.  i would like to see a bow made from dogwood.  Does not dogwood have a religous/historical background?

[wodpow]

The wood is very dense and the flowering dog wood has the flower that are supposed to signify the crucifixion and the wood was said to be what the cross was made of but I don't know what dog wood it was

[Hillbilly]

except that flowering dogwood doesn't grow in the Middle East....

[wodpow]

That was alway a thing with me did we export the wood are did some one just put it as the wood because it is so heavy  and would be very .hard to tote  some say it was elder or elderberry wood who do you believe elder berry is a shrub must of grew larger over there in the holy land.

[billy]

I always wondered why they called it dogwood.  I thought it was cause dogs liked to pee on it. 

[rockhound34]

Thanks for all the great info.Im new here,so hello to everyone.

[mullet]

 I've got one from Pacific Dogwood I've been working on for 7 years, keep getting sidetracked. It's pretty, pink looking wood.