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Offline adb

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Re: Poplar Board Bow
« Reply #15 on: February 24, 2014, 01:17:13 pm »
Poplar is ryoon's favourite bow wood. Right buddy?  8)
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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« Reply #16 on: February 24, 2014, 01:34:53 pm »
Victor is right. Properly designed, almost any wood can make a bow. The question lies in how long they last. Take a poplar bow and make it a weekly shooter for a year or two and it probably wont be around. Use hickory or elm and it lasts a lifetime.
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Offline ajooter

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« Reply #17 on: February 24, 2014, 01:44:00 pm »
I have some nice hickory drying that I should be able to rough out soon.  Im looking forward to that.  Ultimately making a bow from a tree stave is the plan.
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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« Reply #18 on: February 24, 2014, 02:05:29 pm »
If you can build a poplar bow with no issues, you'll breeze right through a hickory bow!
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Offline Badly Bent

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« Reply #19 on: February 24, 2014, 02:30:50 pm »
Only the second one I'e seen from poplar, pretty cool and nice work getting it to work so well for ya.
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Offline echatham

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« Reply #20 on: February 24, 2014, 05:07:11 pm »
didn't anybody ever tell ya you can't build a poplar bow?  :laugh:
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Offline ajooter

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« Reply #21 on: February 24, 2014, 05:58:59 pm »
Yeah....thats the word out there...but I dont listen too well.  Like pearl said it probably won't last as long as some of the other white woods but for now its a bow.  I will surely let everybody know when its firewood  ::).  It would be way cool to see it laying across a fat whitetail this fall though  >:D.  I will have some other better efforts by then hopefully.
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