![]() ![]() This wood takes little set before it blows, so will have good cast as long as it holds together.įIR, Douglas. It’s less twisted when grown undercover and away from wind. Elderberry is superior wood for drill and base when making handrill fires.ĮUCALYPTUS Somewhat brittle in tension, chrysals easily, tends to be twisted, leaving clues to this in its bark. Bert Grayson's elderberry in Oregon appears denser and more elastic than that tested here in the Bay Area, and made a decent bow. Tested samples and bows took excessive set per mass.ĮLEDEBERRY To. 42.īORDERLINE BOWWOODS All of the following can become durable fulldraw midweight bows using less severe versions of the Non-Bowwood remedies, above.ĪSH, black. SPRUCES : black, eastern, red, Sitka, white. Everything else being equal poplar, or similar-SG wood, can safely be made to half the drawweight, or to twice the width of whiteoak. Since a same-size staves of poplar contains about half the “wood” as, say, whiteoak it will do half the work of whiteoak. POPLARS Several species, all just above or below. MAHOGANY Most mahoganies and woods sold as mahogany are light and brittle. When choosing any conifer choose thin-ringed wood if possible.įIRS : balsam. There is always the rare piece of oldgrowth heartwood or compression wood that could do a bit better. Low SG cedars are very brittle, and about the worst possible bowwood candidates. Then retiller shorter and shorter until it takes about 1.5” of set.ĬEDARS : western red, white. A useful approach is to begin with an English design 1.5” wide and 80” or longer, tillered to 50lb. Side benefits are a smoother, low-stack draw, greater accuracy, and good speed per drawweight-if somewhat whip tillered. ![]() But the English war bows were that long, and for similar reasons: such length allows much higher weight than if man tall. At 80” many can yield 50lb, full-draw bows. Especially if pulled into reflex before applying sinew. If lightly rawhide-backed or sinew-backed a shorter bow will hold together. This requires that they be extra long or wide, backed, tillered to a shorter draw, braced lower, or somewhat deflexed. NON BOWWOODS With special treatment heavier species in this group, and similar SG wood not listed here, can become light to midweight bows. ![]()
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