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Offline Badger

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Re: Porta carpus ( yew relative)
« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2007, 01:36:36 pm »
Pat, I would never asume related species have similar qualities, osage is in the fig family, thousands of trees share this family and only a handful make good bows. I am always hopeful till I find out otherwise LOL> Steve
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Re: Porta carpus ( yew relative)
« Reply #16 on: November 22, 2007, 02:57:02 am »
I took some accurate sg measurements on the dried samples today and it looks like it has an sg of about .60  a little on the light side but will hopefully work out for some medium lightweight elbs I want to do around 50# to 60#.  Such a pretty wood i really am hpeful it works out, not too hard to find in my area either. Steve
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Re: Porta carpus ( yew relative)
« Reply #17 on: November 22, 2007, 08:28:19 am »
Steve
I have made 100# bows out of wood with an sg of .70. Depends more on how elastic the wood is and its compression strength rather than the sg.
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