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Title: bullet wood
Post by: mater on April 23, 2011, 12:38:00 PM

are any of you familiar with this and is it good for risers?

Mark

Title: Re: bullet wood
Post by: okie64 on April 23, 2011, 07:44:00 PM

Are you referring to massaranduba? If so I've made two longbows from it. Really hard and heavy wood. Very similar to ipe.

Title: Re: bullet wood
Post by: mater on April 23, 2011, 08:38:00 PM

Thats possibly it. Ive seen where it was called many names. If its like ipe, should work well.

thanks Mark

Title: Re: bullet wood
Post by: mater on April 24, 2011, 09:27:00 AM

I just found a tree site that refers to this as mimusops wood.

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