Elm backed with cherrybark

[AndrewS]

Hi,
just another bow I will show you guys:
She is made out of a board of elm I found a few years ago in the holydays 'cause the hotel has furniture of elmwood from a local carpenter. I phoned him and a few days later I got the board.
The first bow was for my wife.
This one is the second bow out of the board: 62" NTN, 45 lbs @27", 1 1/2 " wide after the fades until midlimb and the tapered to 3/8" at the tips. The tips with a tiny little recurve. she is backed with cherrybark from local forest , the grip is from leather with a lacebinding and she is a got shooter. After shooting she has less than 1" stringfollow.
At last the bad message: Full draw pics are available after my wife will have time to take the pics

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[Earl]

Good Job on the bow! That cherry bark isn't one piece right?

[AndrewS]

Right Earl, the cherrybark are 3 pieces. Two pieces of nearly 31" and for the missing bark at the grip I put on a third piece of bark as an overlay but this one is only 10" in length

[DanaM]

Man thats a pretty bow Andrew, the cherry bark really sets her off.
Can't wait for the full draw pics.

DanaM

[Marc St Louis]

Very nice bow.  What type of Cherry bark is it?

[Ryano]

Nice job Andrew, I made a hickory backed osage bow with cherry bark on the back as a decoration, it looks cool, but kinda hard to work with I thought. 
Marc, thats what we call pin cherry, or fire cherry.

[Dustybaer]

finally (this is the bow i mentioned in the cherry-bark-quiver-thread).  i really like this bow.  andrew, you should have said something.  we could have taken the pictures on wednesday, when i was at your place. 

[George Tsoukalas]

That is a beautiful bow, Andrew. Jawge

[Hillbilly]

Good looking bow, and the cherry bark backing looks great.

[Pat B]

I did a cherry bark backing a few years ago and love the beauty of the bark...coppery. I believe the guy I got it from called it choke cherry but I don't remember. The only place I've seen it around here is at higher elevations along the Blue Ridge PKY but it is illegal to harvest it there.     Hillbilly may know the botanical name.
   Because the bark has to be remover from around the tree(not along its trunk) the size is limited so piecing is necessary in most situations. Mine also had 3 pieces. The guy that gave me the bark suggested I use 2ton epoxy to install so I did with good success. My only problem was I didn't pre match the bark before I installed it so it looked patchy...but good none the less. The bark is stiff so you need to cut to shape first before installing.
  Andrew, This is a beautiful bow. I love the copper color and the natural irregularities of the surface of the bark.    Pat

[Hillbilly]

Pat, I remember your cherry-backed osage, looked good. You can get some good sized pieces of bark off Mazzard cherry (Prunus avium), which is probably what's on Andrew's bow here, it's a European species. There are alot of them naturalized around Asheville. They get big, and have the nice coppery underbark. We remove them as invasives sometimes, I'll grab us some bark the next time I cut one. I haven't seen much chokecherry (P. virginiana) around, and they're usually small and shrubby. There's a buttload of fire/pin  cherry (P. pennsylvanicum) along the parkway above 5000' or so.

[Pat B]

Those are the ones I was talking about...along the Pkwy.   Pat

[white wood]

very nice bow andrew! i like the braced profile with those recurved tips. the cherry bark looks awesome too! i have choke cherry around here but they are more like bushes. we do have black cherry that grows wild but theres not many around. ill keep my eye out for now on, -jesse

[1/2primitive]

Very nice bow using a more unusual backing.
      Sean

[Dustybaer]

i'm not sure on ours but it could be prunus avium or prunus padus.