Take my words with a grain of salt because I've never had a mulberry stave. But I've heard this mulberry tends to have wide rings. So that being said if it's Osage, a blind man can chase a ring on that stave.
What is your draw length and weight you want to hit? Do you want a stiff handle on a bendy? That is a nice stave. I personally would do a bendy with the handle section being a little on the stiff side. But my draw length is 27in. Now I do have a bow that I hunt with that is 57 ntn with a stiff handle but it's a flat bow design with a little reflex. It's also a character bow from a 75 year old Osage fence post. What I'm getting at is you can make what ever you want to a point. It's all in the design and tiller. Patrick
thanks i know for sure that its osage not mulberry
(i have both woods in my garage and the tree this came off of was massive)
bendy handles are the norm for me, that said if i let this one flex in the handle it will be just a tiny bit i dont want to over do it with the deflex already present.
goal is 27-28in draw and mid 50s to 60s in weight but that shouldn't be to hard, most of the time i come in over weight not under lol
Sounds good to me looks like the wood is already offering itself to be a RD design.
yeah thats what i thought after i had my ring chased, this wasn't the original plan but when a stave is saying so clearly what it wants to be how can you refuse it
another thought i had after posting was to splice in some static recurves
