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Offline bow101

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Growth Rings
« on: March 04, 2013, 04:50:46 pm »
Cut a few Hawthorn trunks from 3-4 inches round.  The late growth rings from the pith out are tight where as the early growth are kind of big.   THe cluster of trees is sitting in a tiny ditch area, I know there would be fast growth issues with that much water. Cut a few sapplings and they are great; nice tight rings. Sorry don't have any pics.  Will these make any kind of a bow.?....... :-\ :-\
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Offline bushboy

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Re: Growth Rings
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2013, 05:21:42 pm »
I may be wrong but if it's diffuse porous that would make sense!it's like maple and popular with large early wOod rings and small late wood.am going by memory so again I could be wrong.
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Offline DarkSoul

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Re: Growth Rings
« Reply #2 on: March 04, 2013, 06:14:28 pm »
Hawthorn is indeed diffuse porous. Fat rings or tight rings shouldn't really matter; either will make a fine bow.
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Offline bow101

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Re: Growth Rings
« Reply #3 on: March 04, 2013, 08:01:28 pm »
Cheers,  :)   wait a while till dried out...or speed dry some. At any rate gota look around drier areas for some of this stuff.
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