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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: stuckinthemud on December 09, 2016, 11:30:18 am

Title: garden apple sapwood remove?
Post by: stuckinthemud on December 09, 2016, 11:30:18 am

Evening!
I am working on an apple-wood D-bow, cut 6 months ago, I have dried it out til the weight stabilised and have just removed the bark and taken it to floor tiller.  Weight is a little high at the moment but before I take the weight down and tiller, do I need to remove the sapwood? Apple is ring-porous, I believe.  Its an eating-apple tree, not crab-apple.
Thanks 

Title: Re: garden apple sapwood remove?
Post by: PatM on December 09, 2016, 11:38:30 am

No, and I wouldn't call Apple ring porous.

Title: Re: garden apple sapwood remove?
Post by: DC on December 09, 2016, 11:43:37 am

The Wood Database says that apple is diffuse porous. I'm with Pat, I wouldn't remove the sapwood.

Title: Re: garden apple sapwood remove?
Post by: stuckinthemud on December 09, 2016, 11:58:34 am

Ah the joys of tinternet, the site I glanced at said ring and I believed it even though I thought the wood looked otherwise.  Thanks both.  Really glad to keep the sapwood, trying to follow those rings would be a living nightmare!

Title: Re: garden apple sapwood remove?
Post by: bradsmith2010 on December 09, 2016, 03:11:27 pm

yes bow making can be challenging , no need to add nighmare to the equation  :)