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Offline lebhuntfish

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Re: Help picking first time wood. My first attempt failed
« Reply #15 on: November 03, 2014, 10:17:40 pm »
Try using photo bucket to post pictures from.

I found that the boards I've tried didn't give you any warning on breaking. They tend to just explode. The last one I worked on sent the top limb about 30 feet behind me at full draw. Try to find a good hickory or Osage stave. And check out jawges site lots of board bow info there. Patrick 
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Re: Help picking first time wood. My first attempt failed
« Reply #16 on: November 04, 2014, 12:01:53 am »
Quote from: Prarie Bowyer on November 03, 2014, 07:54:12 pm
Hickory and Osage are hard to mess up.  They come in boards but what ever you use don't bother if you don't back it.





A good board of hickory, maple, oak white or red do not need backing, I know jawge says the only ba king he uses is air, most all white wood boards when properly selected don't need backed
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Offline mhof86

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Re: Help picking first time wood. My first attempt failed
« Reply #17 on: November 04, 2014, 07:24:01 am »
I had the same problem posting pics. You need to resize them to 600x400 pixels. You can do it right in MS Paint. If you need more help pm me and I can walk you through it.
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Re: Help picking first time wood. My first attempt failed
« Reply #18 on: November 04, 2014, 07:59:15 am »
Maple or hickory are a good choice for unbacked board bows from my experience.try down loading effitica and you can resize your own photo's,good luck!
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