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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Joec123able on June 12, 2014, 04:17:04 pm

Title: First break in a looong time
Post by: Joec123able on June 12, 2014, 04:17:04 pm

This mulberry just blew up on me And to me it looks like the wood was too dry is why it blew it up What do you think ? It's been over a year and a half since I broke one so I guess my time was coming haha

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Title: Re: First break in a looong time
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on June 12, 2014, 04:23:55 pm

Looks like a rot or fungus to me Joe.

Title: Re: First break in a looong time
Post by: Joec123able on June 12, 2014, 04:32:39 pm

Yep I think you're right didn't even think about that bit looking at it now seems very likely

Title: Re: First break in a looong time
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on June 12, 2014, 04:35:04 pm

Its pretty clean and pretty thorough. Like it was unhealthy through.

Title: Re: First break in a looong time
Post by: Badger on June 12, 2014, 04:45:19 pm

  That grayish color looks to be spalted? bacteria can play hell on the sap wood.

Title: Re: First break in a looong time
Post by: Stickhead on June 12, 2014, 05:12:23 pm

Wish my record was as good.  Been breaking 'em a bunch lately.

Title: Re: First break in a looong time
Post by: dwardo on June 12, 2014, 05:47:05 pm

Looks like a broken bit of crumbly Cheshire cheese.  :-\

Title: Re: First break in a looong time
Post by: toomanyknots on June 12, 2014, 06:24:49 pm

Quote from: PEARL DRUMS on June 12, 2014, 04:23:55 pm

Looks like a rot or fungus to me Joe.

I'm seen mulberries that were eaten  up by something making the wood not so great. I don't know if there is some disease they get, or what. I'm noticed it though. I have a stave from a tree I cut, the mulberry tree has something crazy going on with it. The sapwood didn't seem to even be there. When I finally got to look at it closely, it was a very thin layer of sapwood, and it was discolored dark too. I thought I had found the rare species of mulberry that comes with the sapwood already removed! :) The wood looks kinda airy and not so great, but it is a pretty heavy stave still for mulberry, so I figure sometime I will try a bow from it.

Title: Re: First break in a looong time
Post by: Joec123able on June 12, 2014, 08:19:27 pm

Yea it's definetly not a healthy tree it looks like foam inside the limb where it broke