Black Locust

[Longcruise]

A non- bowyer friend of mine has alerted me that he will be cutting some black locust.   How would this work for self bows? 

[Roy from Pa]

Awesome bow wood, check out Mo_coon-catchers swap bow pictures in the progress thread.

[Pat B]

Like Roy said, black locust makes a very good bow although it can be finicky with poor tillering. It can also be beautiful under glass. Black locust also makes good fence posts and split rail fences if the wood isn't bow worthy. 

[Stagmitis]

Makes a terrific lam...

[George Tsoukalas]

I cut my bow making teeth on it. Love it. Seal the ends promptly. It functions best with a heartwood back if there is not enough of it to make a bow. Chase a heartwood ring. Jawge

[garyschuler]

One of my favorite woods for laminations on laminated bows. Not my favorite to work with. When i lived in N.E. Wash. I would cut Black Locust along the Columbia river. Where it cones out of Canada to Kettle falls Wash.

[Bowjunkie]

A friend and I spent the afternoon today grinding quartersawn black locust lams in my shop for a glass bow he's going to make... mostly for carp hunting. They were really nice lams, dark, hard, well aged. He's had them for many years. Everything went well.

[Roy from Pa]

Bowjunkie, didn't happen without pictures:)

[Bowjunkie]

Didn't take pictures. It was just lam grinding, nothing spectacular 

I'm still in love with my hinged aluminum sled though. I guess I could have taken a picture of it in action.

[Roy from Pa]

There's a lot of guys here that would love to see the sled and how it was made and used. Share some of that knowledge dude...

[Flem]

Heck yeah! I would love to see the custom sled

[Bowjunkie]

Ok. I'll post some pics and info soon. Maybe not today. It's my granddaughters birthday.

[Roy from Pa]

 

Happy Birthday to her:)

[Mo_coon-catcher]

I love the stuff. In addition to the sapling bow for the bow trade, I just finished one for a buddy that’s a takedown. I like to use a 1 to 1 draw length to limb ratio, make it wide and heat treat until the belly is a deep purple. Makes for thin but snappy limbs. This one is 50# at 25” and throws a 600gr arrow right at 150fps. I feel it’s not bad for a short draw and heavy arrow. I just did a gentle tip flipping when I heat treated. After tillering I decided to cut it down and make a fiberglass takedown sleeve. He wants to put on the handle wrap so I left it as is. He’s going to put on a beaver tail wrap.

Kyle

[Roy from Pa]

 

[Longcruise]

Very nice mo moon.

I'm trying to figure out how I can participate in this harvest.   He is seven hours away!