Thanks everybody. Looks like I'm late to the party and many of you already know this wood well. Philipp, I did these recurves with grease and a heat gun. I got a tiny bit of cracking on the belly but that was removed for the finished bow. Because of what I had read from Marc, I did all the bends with dry heat. I think like hickory, hhb may be a great bow in the dry climate here. Hawkdancer, I'm not sure. I work on a lot of bows at one time and have found it impossible to keep track. I like to take my time with all bows and being able to pick up another bow makes that easy.
