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Offline Gordon

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Re: whats your top five bow woods?
« Reply #15 on: January 23, 2009, 10:10:40 am »
1. Yew
2. Osage
3. Vine Maple
4. Plum
5. Serviceberry
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Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: whats your top five bow woods?
« Reply #16 on: January 23, 2009, 10:22:30 am »
1. Clear, snaky osage
2. Clear, straight osage
3. Straight osage with pins
4. Character osage with lots of projecting back pins
5. Hickory for a change of pace

Least favorite, roller coaster osage with short propellers up and down the limb.
 
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Re: whats your top five bow woods?
« Reply #17 on: January 23, 2009, 10:30:51 am »
1. Yew (the prettiest and easiest to work)
2. Osage (2nd to yew)
3. Vine Maple (tough to work, but makes the fastest bow in my opinion)
4. Hazelnut (easiest to find, by FAR the easiest to work, but has poor memory compared to other top 3 woods)
5. TBD - I have yet to start working on elm, serviceberry, Hawthorne, black locust, etc
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Re: whats your top five bow woods?
« Reply #18 on: January 23, 2009, 10:31:11 am »
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Offline Justin Snyder

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Re: whats your top five bow woods?
« Reply #19 on: January 23, 2009, 10:43:26 am »
I'm with you George. I do notice that a lot of my bows as of late are Ipe though.
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Offline shamus

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Re: whats your top five bow woods?
« Reply #20 on: January 23, 2009, 10:56:15 am »
I choose woods that fit best with my climate (Illinois) , then match the right design for that wood.

I prefer flatbows with gradual width taper: http://analogperiphery.blogspot.com/2008/05/osage-flat-bow-dimensions.html

With that in mind I like (in no special order):

Osage
Red Mulberry
Pacific Yew (not native to here but I like it)
White Oak 
Hop Hornbeam* (I haven’t tried this one, but I think it would be good: hickory without the moisture retention problem)


If the list is not limited to five, I'd add:

Hickory
Walnut
Elm
And a host of other white woods that I would make as 1.5" D bows.

There are tons of good bow woods out there. Just match the right design to them.

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Offline John K

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Re: whats your top five bow woods?
« Reply #21 on: January 23, 2009, 11:29:25 am »
Osage, Rock Maple, White Ash, Red Elm and Hickory. I have made bows from these woods and liked them. I think the White Ash is my favorite at the moment. I have many other woods drying to try in the future, they include Black Locust, Honey Locust, White Oak and HHB.

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Offline Pat B

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Re: whats your top five bow woods?
« Reply #22 on: January 23, 2009, 11:37:06 am »
I'd have to say...
1, osage
2, hickory
3, mulberry
4, HHB
5, yew   I haven't made many bows with these last 2 but I liked the way they worked and the end results.      Pat
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Offline Dane

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Re: whats your top five bow woods?
« Reply #23 on: January 23, 2009, 12:12:22 pm »
1. Lemonwood (degame) I only have a little left, so I am hording it.
2. Elm!
3. Maple
4. Osage
5. Hickory
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Re: whats your top five bow woods?
« Reply #24 on: January 23, 2009, 12:54:23 pm »
John, I wouldn't waste my time on honey locust. My experience suggests that it would be all too brittle.
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Offline John K

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Re: whats your top five bow woods?
« Reply #25 on: January 23, 2009, 02:44:28 pm »
Thanks stringman, i'll let you know how it goes, to pretty to pass up ! :D
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Offline Coo-wah-chobee

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Re: whats your top five bow woods?
« Reply #26 on: January 23, 2009, 03:48:59 pm »
            Snakewood
            Carrotwood
            Degame
            Florida Red Mulberry
            Elm
 
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Offline leapingbare

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Re: whats your top five bow woods?
« Reply #27 on: January 23, 2009, 04:25:46 pm »
1-osage
2-hickory
3-black locust

i'v made alot but only these woods.
i have a yew stave to do.. and ironwood bow to finish , a hickory bow to finish and two vine maple staves to do.. man i'm ganna be bussy!!
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Offline Ryano

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Re: whats your top five bow woods?
« Reply #28 on: January 23, 2009, 04:38:21 pm »
The king of course is Osage. After that its kind of a toss up for me. I like black locust, elm , maple, hawthorne, hophornbeam. Apple is pretty high on my list as well. I've only made one bow of yew so I don't have much experiance with it but I don't like how soft it is and how easy it dents. Same with erc. I hate hickory!
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Offline D. Tiller

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Re: whats your top five bow woods?
« Reply #29 on: January 23, 2009, 05:09:40 pm »
1) Yew
2) Osage
3)Elm
4)Hickory
5)Ash

Elm ash and hickory rank about the same for me.
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