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Title: What does Ash look like?
Post by: slayer1 on March 12, 2008, 12:43:00 PM

Does anyone have pictures of what Ash looks like as a veneer or riser wood?

Title: Re: What does Ash look like?
Post by: Badlands on March 12, 2008, 01:39:00 PM

Slayer1
I've done a little work with Ash.  It is pretty hard and its grain is relatively open like oak. It is pretty light in collor, not as light as maple but lighter than oak, and I don't know if I've seen any of it that has much feature to it.
It is said to handle shock very well and that is why many if not most wooden baseball bats are made of it.
I do have a riser I built of Ash in the late 80s or early 90s.  It isn't much to look at, but shoots well. I'm not sure if the riser material really has much to do with that or not.  Sometimes you make a bow that just seems to put them where you are looking.

Title: Re: What does Ash look like?
Post by: Izzy on March 12, 2008, 01:45:00 PM

PM 91Stormvet, hes got a sweet BigEast made entirely of ash.Ive made arrows from it and it did look much like oak but colored more like hickory.

Title: Re: What does Ash look like?
Post by: slayer1 on March 12, 2008, 01:46:00 PM

The reason I am asking is I found a bow for sale that has a kingwood riser with, maple cores and Ash limbs veneers. The problem is the guy does not have a camera and cannot send pictures. Before I spent the $ I was curious to what it looked like.

Title: Re: What does Ash look like?
Post by: ChristopherO on March 12, 2008, 02:10:00 PM

Look at an unpainted Loisville Slugger baseball bat as they were and should still be make of ash.  It is a very white wood when cut.  I have dried ash staves in my garage which are still very white throughout.  Not much in the way of charactor but a solid wood.  I think birch wood or birch veneer has more appeal to it than ash in the way of looks.  Won't be an eye popper of a bow like zebra wood, osage or the like but it should shoot fine.  It all depends on the price you are paying for it.

Title: Re: What does Ash look like?
Post by: Jeremy on March 12, 2008, 02:54:00 PM

Depends on the ash veneer the bowyer used.  I have a few boards of curly ash that rival some of the curly maple veneers I've seen.

Title: Re: What does Ash look like?
Post by: MJB on March 12, 2008, 03:13:00 PM

Slayer1
Here's some plain looking ash veneer. Like Jeremy said depends on the ash the bowyer used. Terry has a bow with Tamo ash veneer's that is OUTSTANDING.
  (http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j297/treeyelpr/ash20veneer20420s5020q6020plh.jpg)

Title: Re: What does Ash look like?
Post by: slayer1 on March 12, 2008, 03:38:00 PM

Thanks guys! This really helps.

Title: Re: What does Ash look like?
Post by: HATCHCHASER on March 12, 2008, 10:17:00 PM

Hey Scott.  Buy it and send it to me and I will let you know if you will like it or should just let me keep it.  :bigsmyl:

Title: Re: What does Ash look like?
Post by: kennym on March 12, 2008, 10:22:00 PM

Heres the only pic I have handy of ash,as said before,unlike this piece,some of it is very wild!!

                  (http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d34/kennym/102_1332.jpg)
Left to right
red elm,red elm,ash,walnut

Title: Re: What does Ash look like?
Post by: 2fletch on March 13, 2008, 12:04:00 PM

Scott, I forgot that I had an ash bow here at the shop. It is a self bow that I made for my mother-in-law. Remember to ask me about it.

Title: Re: What does Ash look like?
Post by: Terry Green on March 14, 2008, 09:40:00 AM

Tamo Ash is really pretty!!!