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If your supplies are limited to whats on the table saw in your first picture.
Ash primary wood backed with hickory, thin slice of the red looking wood in the handle and tips and topped with what looks like zebrawood over thin slice of red colored wood for handle and tips.
Of course if you have some horn laying around use it for tip overlays instead of the wood. Heat treat the belly, recurve the limbs and put Grumley layered style brush nocks on the ends. Finish back with diamondback rattlesnake skins. Hows that sound?
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I think my next bow will be a tri-lam I didn't realize you could use TBIII!
I just resawed 3 1/8" pieces of hickory from a part of my board so maybe I'll need to resaw some core lams too.
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I've always heard hickory backed cherry makes a fast bow...one of these days I'll get one to hold up. Posts: 347 | From: Wasilla, Alaska | Registered: Mar 2009
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I tried 2 Cherry bows, they both broke. Ash did good for me as well as Oak - BUT - I broke some of them as well and made several of them. So with only 2 Cherrys built by me, I vote Cherry. I want to see how others do with it.
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i would like to see hickory backed as i can get both cherry and hickory and the others would be a bit harder to get.
-------------------- "A hunter's life is filled with chases, hidden places and endless graces." Posts: 19 | From: sydney, Australia | Registered: Oct 2005
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