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<blockquote data-quote="sterling_archer" data-source="post: 1120628" data-attributes="member: 11955"><p>Ah, that were osage boards. They are probably amazing to make tables from, or some chairs. It makes sense that you backed them, who knows would you ever find one with nice grain (like oak boards) so you could use it without backing. Better be safe than sorry.</p><p></p><p>Primarily I use now my draw knife as a scraper. If I get it to less than 90° perpendicular to bow belly, it will not leave scrape marks and will get good shavings. When there is aggressive tillering required, I even use coarse rasp.</p><p></p><p>Plum, especially its wild variant blackthorn doesn't need backing. I mean you can put backing on everything but some woods will function without it. You could have just attempted bendy longbow. That being said, these two are painfully difficult to season/dry and will leave many cracks.</p><p>I am too at the moment a bit burned out. 3 bows in a row didn't come at all like I wanted or I threw them away during tillering because of excessive character making tillering difficult. You know, I get to the woods and see a cool piece of wood, spend hours on it shaping it and then I find I cannot get the bend because of all dips and bumps in the limbs. Then I say fuck it and throw it away for firewood. I should stop that. Just now I am also looking at a victim of being for fire. A hornbeam (not hophornbeam!) pyramid bow (haha) that has retarded curves everywhere and when I put it to tiller yesterday, I worked an hour on inner limbs to get them to even bend. During that time of course hinges developed near tips. </p><p></p><p>I never leave sapwood on BL because it is always in bad condition, especially if the wood is dead standing (you can use dead standing BL with no problems). I got recently a good experience on ring chasing because of that.</p><p>Box elder was also introduced in Europe and now it is a completely invasive species. Me and my dad are frequently cutting it for firewood. It is soft and has not good properties for fire, but you can find it a lot. Too bad it is not a bow wood, sometimes I see them straight as a poles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sterling_archer, post: 1120628, member: 11955"] Ah, that were osage boards. They are probably amazing to make tables from, or some chairs. It makes sense that you backed them, who knows would you ever find one with nice grain (like oak boards) so you could use it without backing. Better be safe than sorry. Primarily I use now my draw knife as a scraper. If I get it to less than 90° perpendicular to bow belly, it will not leave scrape marks and will get good shavings. When there is aggressive tillering required, I even use coarse rasp. Plum, especially its wild variant blackthorn doesn't need backing. I mean you can put backing on everything but some woods will function without it. You could have just attempted bendy longbow. That being said, these two are painfully difficult to season/dry and will leave many cracks. I am too at the moment a bit burned out. 3 bows in a row didn't come at all like I wanted or I threw them away during tillering because of excessive character making tillering difficult. You know, I get to the woods and see a cool piece of wood, spend hours on it shaping it and then I find I cannot get the bend because of all dips and bumps in the limbs. Then I say fuck it and throw it away for firewood. I should stop that. Just now I am also looking at a victim of being for fire. A hornbeam (not hophornbeam!) pyramid bow (haha) that has retarded curves everywhere and when I put it to tiller yesterday, I worked an hour on inner limbs to get them to even bend. During that time of course hinges developed near tips. I never leave sapwood on BL because it is always in bad condition, especially if the wood is dead standing (you can use dead standing BL with no problems). I got recently a good experience on ring chasing because of that. Box elder was also introduced in Europe and now it is a completely invasive species. Me and my dad are frequently cutting it for firewood. It is soft and has not good properties for fire, but you can find it a lot. Too bad it is not a bow wood, sometimes I see them straight as a poles. [/QUOTE]
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