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ozark caveman

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Brazilian Redwood
« on: February 06, 2008, 02:28:48 pm »
A fancy shmancy architect I worked for used Brazilian redwood on his home for siding. The stuff was very hard, dense, and heavy. I you looked closely on it the grain resembled Osage. I'm wondering if any of you have used this wood? I would love to get a piece of it :)
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Offline Badger

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Re: Brazilian Redwood
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2008, 02:30:55 pm »
  Ozarkm same as bulletwood, beefwood and masaranduba. very good bow wood, I prefer to back it but have used it unbacked as well. Steve
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Offline markinengland

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Re: Brazilian Redwood
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2008, 02:37:55 pm »
Not quite as good as Ipe as a belly wood but still good.
I have heard of some flight archers using it as a backing wood but haven't tried this myself.
The planks I got had checked on one side leaving internal flaws that lifted once on the bow so look for that.
Mark in England
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Offline adb

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Re: Brazilian Redwood
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2008, 03:39:52 pm »
Is that the same as Jatoba? If so, I've used jatoba successfully with hickory backing.
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Offline snedeker

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Re: Brazilian Redwood
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2008, 03:55:24 pm »
Jatoba is the brazilian cherry.  Lighter than Massaranduba, which is in turn lighter than ipe.  I like the B Redwood/Massaranduba backed with bamboo.     I hade a couple frets on the boo backted Jatoba I made.

Dave
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