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Offline leonwood

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Re: Eastern Cottonwood for a Selfbow
« Reply #15 on: June 29, 2017, 06:55:13 am »
I for sure would be happy with those mulberry staves!
But for your last question, with mulberry you can use the sap as the back of the bow without any problems. Mulberry makes both sap and heartwood bows so you have a lot of bows there. Seal them well because the sap likes to split when drying.

Offline blindarcher

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Re: Eastern Cottonwood for a Selfbow
« Reply #16 on: June 29, 2017, 06:11:10 pm »
Thanks you, the news just keeps on getting better.

Cheers!