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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: leif on March 28, 2019, 10:33:36 am

Title: Fastest growing trees suitable for bows?
Post by: leif on March 28, 2019, 10:33:36 am: what are the faster growing trees suitable for bows?
I only know of black locust and bamboo(not a tree) are there any others that grow faster?
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Post by: DC on March 28, 2019, 10:54:16 am: Hazel.
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Post by: simson on March 28, 2019, 12:15:56 pm: are already in the woods, just don't forget your saw! (lol) (lol) (lol)
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Post by: Hamish on March 28, 2019, 06:36:18 pm: Coppiced ash.
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Post by: Dante_F on March 28, 2019, 07:15:13 pm: all mulberry, red mulberry is best in performance, grows fast and has tasty fruit. red can make a bow similar to osage but little wider and longer (10% to 25%)
ill be working on some soon after some "selective trimming"
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Post by: Dante_F on March 28, 2019, 07:44:03 pm: there's also eastern red cedar and some other junipers. I have a feeling eastern red cedar would do well backed by locust. osage has also been known to grow fast and is invasive in the mediterranian
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Post by: avcase on March 28, 2019, 08:56:27 pm: I second the vote for black locust and osage. I went from osage seeds to trees large enough to make bows in less than seven years (trunks about 7” in diameter).

Alan
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Post by: Limbit on March 28, 2019, 09:57:44 pm: Teak is the fastest growing hardwood and it is able to make a bow. Not that it is going to be common Stateside.
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Post by: Limbit on March 28, 2019, 09:58:19 pm: Mulberry grows quickly as well.
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Post by: Hrothgar on March 29, 2019, 04:23:25 am: In n. Missouri the mulberry as mentioned, there is also some fast growing elm around the railroad tracks and old houses.