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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Prarie Bowyer on July 26, 2014, 08:50:30 pm

Title: Green wood to great bow?..from tbb 1.
Post by: Prarie Bowyer on July 26, 2014, 08:50:30 pm

I read the section on making green wood bows from. The bowyers bible v.1.  I thought these were for survival bows that you throw away.

Is this worth doing? 

Am I going to ruin some wood trying this?

Title: Re: Green wood to great bow?..from tbb 1.
Post by: bubbles on July 26, 2014, 10:31:36 pm

Didn't one of the authors take a bear with a "green" bow he made the day of the hunt as a backup?  I seem to remember that, so it seems like it could be done.

Title: Re: Green wood to great bow?..from tbb 1.
Post by: raylbird on July 26, 2014, 10:37:01 pm

I have made one bow with just cut Black Locust. The bark peeled off by hand the day I split it. I roughed out the bow that day, left it in the shed for a week with a fan blowing on it and finished and shot it. The bow took very little set and was one of my fastest shooters. It is such a joy to work with soft wood. I never measured the finished moisture content but it was certainly not terribly high after a week.