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Does everybody take that sapwood off? I was taking sapwood off of some seasoned osage yesterday, and the stuff seems to have some great tension strength. Why not leave it on? Just because of the bugs and the checking?
Some nice osage there.Osage sapwood is fine on a bow provided: the ring is good and thick: it was collected in the winter when the sap is down; bark is removed, and the back well sealed.Sapwood seems more susceptible to developing rot, if harvested in summer, especially in high humidity, or rain, or is left outside before being processed.I think the not using sapwood practice developed when guys just cut it, left the bark on to season. When you process wood like that bugs and or fungus usually gets in and makes the sapwood useless.