Finished this one up today. Or nearly. I have undone the handle wrap and I am flipping the bow over. It just shoots much better flipped. But, outside of that technicality, it's done. A few thoughts. I love Mulberry...If I had but one wish in 2019, that wish would obviously be that all the children of the world would join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace. But if I had 2 wishes...yeah the first would be that crap about the kids, but the second wish would be that I had an unlimited supply of sweet Mulberry at my finger tips. (hat tip Steve Martin). I loved working with this wood. I think the comparisons with it being a cousin to Osage are misleading a little. Much softer than Osage. The heartwood works more like Hackberry to me. Except it does work like a dream under the drawknife unlike Hackberry. Getting the sap wood off was a nightmare, but once underneath it the heartwood will do most any thing you ask it to. Although somewhat easily dinged if your not careful, it surprised me once I had a string on it. I was certain it would snap before I got to 27 inches, or at least lose all of its muscle and take a lot of set. Wrong on both. It never worked up a sweat getting to full draw and it settled in with 1 7/8 inches of reflex and stayed right there. It's about 1 inch of reflex when first unstrung and then shortly after it rebounds to 1 7/8 inches. Had to glue in a handle section as it got to thin right there in the middle. It shoots really sweet (especially since I flipped it over). The R/D aspect is guess work for me as I don't have a lot of experience with them, so the tiller is more or less what I thought looked right than anything else. Any comments on that aspect from you R/D guys is welcomed. Any way, thanks for looking.
The specs....
Texas Mulberry (Red)
67 inches ttp
Reflex/Deflex
About 1 5/8 inches wide at the fades
parallel to mid limb and then tapered to about 1/2 inch at the tips
Black Cherry tip overlays
48 lbs at 27 inches btw.
