Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: upstatenybowyer on December 21, 2016, 08:30:15 am
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Hi Folks,
This topic came to mind as I'm trying to decide what I want to back and ERC bow with. I know Silver Maple isn't a great bow wood, but how about as a backing? I've read that it fails in compression rather than tension. It's lighter that hard maple and I've got a ton of clear and straight saplings on my property.
Thanks
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Never used it, but my gut tells me its junk bow wood all the way around.
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Silver Maple has the same modulus of rupture as ERC. Red Maple on the other hand is substantially stronger. Sure you don't have Red Maple?
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Isn't silver maple the same thing as sycamore maple, if so then no not a backer
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Silver maple isn't the same as sycamore, bub. But Id guess the properties are about the same. From what I have read, sugar or rock maple is the only maple a fella wants to mess with in bow building.
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Silver maple isn't the same as sycamore, bub. But Id guess the properties are about the same. From what I have read, sugar or rock maple is the only maple a fella wants to mess with in bow building.
Ever hear of Vine Maple, Pearlie? ;)
You can look through the properties of the various Maples on the wood database. http://www.wood-database.com/
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Sure have! Ooops. Where I come from its hard to put it in the maple family. Its superior to any maple we have around here.
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Thanks guys. I'm going with white ash.
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Silver maple isn't the same as sycamore, bub. But Id guess the properties are about the same. From what I have read, sugar or rock maple is the only maple a fella wants to mess with in bow building.
Out here the locals call sycamore silver maple too, but i still think it is just as bad a bow wood either way
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Remember there is American Sycamore and Sycamore Maple (an imported European species). Two completely different and unrelated trees.
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Never used it, but my gut tells me its junk bow wood all the way around.
Yes. I messed around with it once, because I had some from a tree I trimmed. It acts like cottonwood, basically, and it was very poor in tension. I wouldn't bother.