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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: redboard on April 25, 2014, 12:40:34 pm

Title: Hackberry...
Post by: redboard on April 25, 2014, 12:40:34 pm: OK, I live in Central TX and there are what the ranchers call Hackberrys everywhere. I have 7 of them in my backyard, two of which have fallen down, eaten to dust by something. They are considered trash trees here...

Is this the selfsame Hackberry that so many of the beautiful bows here are made with?
Title: Re: Hackberry...
Post by: Sasquatch on April 25, 2014, 12:45:37 pm: I also live in Central Tx, and yes they are the same. Treat it similar to ash wood. See you at the central texas bow building bust at Summerville lake May 17-18. Check the events fourm.
Title: Re: Hackberry...
Post by: SLIMBOB on April 25, 2014, 12:47:36 pm: One in the same. Hackberry, Sugarberry, "Celtis Laevigata". Love hackberry. Lite as a feather and very good in tension. It's weakness is in it's compression elasticity which is countered by heat tempering. Where in central Texas are you?
Title: Re: Hackberry...
Post by: redboard on April 25, 2014, 01:04:14 pm: Waco ;D
Title: Re: Hackberry...
Post by: Pat B on April 25, 2014, 01:11:36 pm: I grew up in Savannah and we called hackberry sugarberry there.
Title: Re: Hackberry...
Post by: SLIMBOB on April 25, 2014, 03:17:21 pm: Welcome to PA fellow Texican. I'm south of you in the hill country. My business is in Austin so not too far away.
Title: Re: Hackberry...
Post by: autologus on April 25, 2014, 03:36:44 pm: Quote from: Pat B on April 25, 2014, 01:11:36 pm
I grew up in Savannah and we called hackberry sugarberry there.

Hackberry and Sugarberry are actually two different species.

Hackberry - Celtis occidentalis
Sugarberry - Celtis laevigata

Grady
Title: Re: Hackberry...
Post by: Pat B on April 25, 2014, 04:29:51 pm: Thanks Grady. I didn't know that.
Title: Re: Hackberry...
Post by: smoke on April 25, 2014, 05:25:04 pm: Cutting a hackberry in the morning. Really good stuff and greatly underrated in my view. As mentioned above, heat temper it and you will be pleased.
Title: Re: Hackberry...
Post by: SLIMBOB on April 25, 2014, 05:46:57 pm: We have always called it Hackberry around here when in fact it's Sugarberry mostly. The woods are pretty much indistinguishable from one another.