mystery wood bow /Osage sapwood bow

[riverrat]

 i sure will Pat.going to scrape them round, grease and burnish. i have to work the next two days. sooo, might have to let it rest a few days. but come wensday back at it on the tiller board . Tony

[riverrat]

heres a clue. getting ready to put it up for a few days, i lightly sanded everything nice and smooth. coated it then rubbed in some deer fat.didnt heat it or anything, it soaks it up a bit, so i did it again and burnished it all over with a deer tine.the feel of it is somthing simular to cedar.the belly has been changing colors since i greased it and burnished it. pretty close to the color on the back now.Tony

[PlanB]

I was going to say elm looking at the grain in outside light. But reading about it soaking up grease and feeling like cedar, it sounds like  softer wood. The grain is a hardwood grain. I dunno -- some wild guesses here.....butternut? Hard to imagine it as a bow. Black walnut? But I don't think the sapwood would ever match the heartwood. No idea.

[riverrat]

last clue, most experienced bowyers on here , and a few others including myself in the past have tossed this wood out as shavings
pretty good answer there about looking like hardwood grain but feeling like cedar. its not that soft. but it has that dull dry feeling to it. and it will scratch easily compared to its later stages   Tony

[PatM]

Sassafras?

[Springbuck]

  I thought English walnut, which is lighter and softer than black walnut.  Also, thought maybe light colored BL, but it usually feels hard in the hand, like it rings when you knock on it.

[DuBois]

Basswood 

[DuBois]

Jus kiddin 

[DuBois]

Blue Beech

[DuBois]

Really, INFI

[JoJoDapyro]

Some type of locust?

[burchett.donald]

   White Oak...
                          Don

[PlanB]

"...will scratch easily compared to its later stages...." must be a sapwood, but of some common bow wood normally used for its heart wood. So is that like osage or black locust? 

or.......it's petrified wood

[paulsemp]

I'm not really interested in what type of wood it is till I see it bend

[riverrat]

ding ding ding and theres a winner mr.Plan B!!!!!! Osage sapwood bow it is. not even a smidgen of heartwood! Tony