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! :banghead:
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.
What's your draw length? For hunting or target shooting, or both?
IPE backed with Bamboo or Hickory ELB. I personally want to try one some day because it looks so cool.
All of them.
My draw is 28-29 and I would have to say both. Oh I have bamboo too.
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
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!