what about using cherry for laminates  .I hear good thing about Maple ,walnut but not much about cherry.Thinking about 2 laminates under clear glass

Cherry makes a very nice limb.I would go for 3 lams with cherry back and belly with a maple or A-boo core. Bob

Cherry under clear glass is very pretty but I found that it came in under weight on a recurve I built compared to red elm.  I will keep that in mind when deciding on thickness of lams.

I agree with canadabowyer. Cherry will be a beauty for sure.

I've built several cherry bows...  one is a one lam under glass, an experiment, kind of a glassed self bow, if that makes any sense, with a cherry riser...  Real nice looking and shooting.  Did a couple with multiple lams and they came out nicely as well, very smooth.   As noted, not as powerful as some other choices, but  a boo core or an extra lam will fix that.   Very nice wood to work with.

Cherry only gets better with age under clear glass.

Like was said above, it does make a bit lighter bow for the same stack thickness.  I made one a few years ago with an actionboo core and cherry lams on the back and belly.  It came out about 5 lbs. lighter than another bow I built with the same dimensions but with maple and actionboo core.

I have used cherry in 4 bows as veeners over another core never had a problem yet. Add some black walnut and youve got a keeper

cherry under clear glass makes a nice looking limb I've used it in flat grain & edge grain.

QuoteOriginally posted by BrushWolf:
I have used cherry in 4 bows as veeners over another core never had a problem yet. Add some black walnut and youve got a keeper

So something like this BrushWolf...

 


This one is a keeper.  It's the bow I used to take my first deer with a bow I made.

 

Just finished this cherry limb longbow, it has a blackwalnut core.

I rounded up a couple of pix of that cherry glassed self bow I mentioned above...   one cherry lam, glass and a cherry riser.   30# and a very nice shooter.

I really like cherry under glass. It looks and performs great... and it's readily available. I've made bows with it from the 40's to 70's of draw weight. Edge grain for the inside lams and flat grain showing under the glass.

 

 

I am liking cherry the more I see it

My favorite of the ones I have made with cherry...

Nice Junkie and Kenny.

All very nice. I would keep her to jsweka .

Cherry as a Belly lam is great looking and it performs in all-wood lam bows too!

I really like Cherry.  Looks great, ages wonderfully under clear glass.  Grinds crisp and clean when making laminations, no worries about oil when gluing.  Shoots great.  What more can you ask.

We have a tree here called "wild cherry", the leaves are poisonous to cattle..is this the same tree? I have one in the yard about 16-18" and 60 ft tall

Never seen a 60' tall Cherry tree.  Where are you located, Pictures???