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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: soy on November 18, 2011, 12:17:52 am

Title: cherry?
Post by: soy on November 18, 2011, 12:17:52 am

Do I leave the sapwood on cherry or work it down to the heart wood??? Thanks for any help ;D

Title: Re: cherry?
Post by: M-P on November 18, 2011, 12:44:20 am

Hi Soy,  I haven't worked cherry, but other Prunus sp. are treated as "white" woods.  Just remove the bark and start tillering.   Ron

Title: Re: cherry?
Post by: Pat B on November 18, 2011, 12:52:15 am

Long ago I built a few cherry bows and they were from right under the bark. Long and wide as per Paul Comstock.

Title: Re: cherry?
Post by: soy on November 18, 2011, 03:53:22 am

Thanks for the feed back, in it is ;)

Title: Re: cherry?
Post by: MWirwicki on November 18, 2011, 04:27:54 pm

I scraped off the cadmium layer on one that I built.  That's all.