Wood Choices

[Cuban Missile]

Ok So this is what I have laying around the shop right now Mulberry 5'
Osage 5'  
Hackberry 6'
Black Walnut 8'
Ipe 7'
Elm 8'
Hickory 6'  

What would you choose and what design?  I seem to be all scatterbrained and can't make up my mind!    

[Jaikarr]

Take the Ipe and make an English longbow. Or make the Osage into a bend-through-handle shortbow. Take some of the walnut and use it as a handle for a hickory flatbow.

[Art B]

What's your draw length? For hunting or target shooting, or both?

[Nim-rod]

IPE backed with Bamboo or Hickory ELB. I personally want to try one some day because it looks so cool.

[PEARL DRUMS]

All of them.

[Cuban Missile]

My draw is 28-29 and I would have to say both.  Oh I have bamboo too.

[Art B]

For that draw length I would recurve and sinew back the Osage and mulberry. Many other options with the rest. Unbacked bows 66-68" with flipped tips and backed bows a couple inches shorter. Pyramidal limb design with straight to deflexed limbs and partial parallel/pyramid for anything reflexed. Hope that helps........Art

[eflanders]

You have some very wonderful woods that could be combined into many beautiful multi-laminated bows.  I would love to have that many different wood species on-hand to work with!