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Offline upstatenybowyer

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sweet birch (Betula lenta)?
« on: February 10, 2017, 08:10:58 pm »
Got some in my woods. Anyone ever make a bow from it?
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Offline willie

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Re: sweet birch (Betula lenta)?
« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2017, 08:20:02 pm »
paper birch used here. there was some bows made from back birch last winter that were written up
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Offline Pat B

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Re: sweet birch (Betula lenta)?
« Reply #2 on: February 10, 2017, 11:15:45 pm »
Sweet birch will make a bow but there are better bow woods.
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