Is there any way to tell if a stave is red or white mulberry? I have only worked with ONE stave of mulberry, everything I have read and heard says it is very similar to osage. I noticed when I was making the bow that the wood seemed to be about like sweetgum, very light for its length, and the rings are very wide, summer wood is 1/8th thick. The winter rings are very thin, about 1/32 inch thick. Or have I just got a red mulberry from the coastal area with a really long growing season? I don't know where the stave came from or anything else about it, I got it in a trade. And I know that a picture would help. It is not quite as yellow as osage and it is darkening nicely as I shoot it. It made a good bow and it has held together for several hundred arrows which is pretty good for the bows I make, they usually go kaboom. Bill
