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stuckinthemud
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most beautiful timber?
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January 09, 2016, 05:08:29 pm »
Not the most beautiful bow, or the best bow-wood, what do you rate as the prettiest bow-wood?
For me, for the time-being its character yew: two-tone colour and all those curves.....
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TimBo
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January 09, 2016, 05:53:53 pm »
Eastern Red Cedar, if it stayed reddish-purple...which it doesn't. Yew is pretty hard to beat.
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Hrothgar
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January 09, 2016, 06:20:18 pm »
Osage orange gets my vote, the grain in ash can look really sharp when its stained.
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bubby
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January 09, 2016, 06:37:02 pm »
I've seen some ugly bows, but it wasn't the woods fault😉
Lots of pretty woods tigerwood epe yew osage hhb but they are prettier drawn ready to let fly
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dirthas
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January 09, 2016, 06:37:31 pm »
The prettiest I think I've seen in person is red cedar, but the look of laburnum really impressed me when I saw it on here:
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=41863.0
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Bryce
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January 09, 2016, 06:58:00 pm »
Hands down....yew
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richardzane
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January 09, 2016, 07:26:15 pm »
I sure like persimmon ...with the light sap wood against the dark
but that yew of Bryce's is sure purty
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bubby
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January 09, 2016, 08:09:59 pm »
Black walnut and paper birch is pretty
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wizardgoat
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January 09, 2016, 08:12:47 pm »
Yew and Rocky Mountain juniper get my vote.
I really like the darker coloured Osage too
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osage outlaw
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January 09, 2016, 08:13:33 pm »
Curly osage
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DanD
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January 09, 2016, 08:28:48 pm »
My 2 bow I ever started was a beutiful walnut stave that with no warning what so ever exploded during tillering, I thought that it was going to be the most gorgeous bow when I got done with it but fire wood it became, lol
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PatM
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January 09, 2016, 09:29:50 pm »
I like the look of Snakewood.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=snakewood&biw=1356&bih=593&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiUrZvTlp7KAhUB0h4KHX4jA3gQ_AUIBigB
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Limbit
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January 10, 2016, 03:44:42 am »
Ebony...but don't tell anyone I said that! Yes, it makes a good self bow if you have the money to buy it and are willing to trust the words "legally harvested" . Looks like obsidian when you are done sanding it.
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Del the cat
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January 10, 2016, 05:00:08 am »
Yew... did anyone say Yew yet?
Or just maybe Yew
I think Bryce proved the point with his pic (I'm still droolin').
Most of the pretty laminates are merely mimicking the two tone Yew look.
Del
(Laburnum (AKA Golden chain etc) is also pretty)
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Dances with squirrels
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January 10, 2016, 08:32:41 am »
Yew.
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