maple

[M Koop]

I,m making my first bow and have a nice maple sapling does maple work well Im trying to make a 62 inch recurve

[deadpool]

I dont know how it would turn out as a recurve but I have had good success with maple in a longbow i made a few years back

[Pat B]

It depends on which maple you have. Sugar(hard)maple or vine maple will give you a nice bow. Red maple or other softer wood maples will not.

[M Koop]

Its a manitoba maple  or box elder

[Pat B]

Box Elder is pretty soft wood. Make it as long as you can and wide.  Good luck!

[M Koop]

thanks if this maple does,nt turn out I have some willow and oak drying

[JamesV]

Koop,

Is the willow you have in Canada the same as we have here in Mississippi?

[DanaM]

Box Elder and willow will only disappoint you, find some hard maple(sugar or black), elm, red oak, or Hophornbeam(ironwood)

[M Koop]

don,t no what kind of willow it is. made many a bow when i was younger its just got long straight branches. have,nt had time to go out and buy the right wood so i,m experimenting with what grows in my bushes