Had our second shot last Wednesday...

I'll get my second Moderna shot on the 6th. My wife got her's last Friday.   

A buddy brought me some mulberry. Still got the bark on it. Prolly ought get off right. It is yellow but not bright like Osage

Have used mulberry here to make bows, nice stuff, almost as good as Osage..

Have several half logs in the barn...

Mulberry can stand toe to toe with osage...almost. It being lighter in physical weight gives it a leg up with osage.
And, in a few years it darkens and looks very similar to aged osage. It makes a good selfbow for sure.

This needs to dry for quite awhile. With some careful cutting and gluing probably some risers in these pieces.
And some veneers.

I had to look up Mulberry, never seen a tree or the wood. Which species of Mulberry is it?
I have had dried Mulberries, they were delicious.

I have no idea of species. So.In. growen.

I've used it in selfbows, trilams, and glass bows. I have a bunch of rough sawn mulberry boards. I bought them because the guy said they were osage. They had been in a barn for over 20 years, so they were really dark and dirty. Sort of looked like osage from the outside, hard to tell in a dusty old barn... but as soon as I started moving them, I noticed they felt too light weight for osage. I scraped down into a few with my knife. I told him I didn't think it was osage, maybe mulberry or black locust. He still insisted it was osage. Then I wasn't sure, but the price was good either way and figured I'd use it no matter which of the three it was, so I brought it home. It was obvious it wasn't osage once it was standing next to some equally old osage boards I had... and as soon as I cut into it. Osage? No friggin way.

Now, was it mulberry or locust? Seemed a little bit light weight for locust too, and it failed the black light test. Black locust glows like it's radioactive under a black light, mulberry doesn't at all, and there was none of that, so I'm confident it's mulberry.

No, mulberry isn't 'bad', but it isn't osage either. I sure wish it was osage. It was about half a pickup load of boards about 10' long. Oh well, live and learn.

LOL, remember the time Kevin and I cut down a locust tree and thought it was Osage?

LOL

Apparently Red Mulberry is our only native. White Mulberry is more common, but introduced.
The Mulberry berries I have had were white, interlopers!

Heading out in a few minutes for my second Moderna vaccine. 

 

Good on you Pat   Hope it does not kick your a$$, like it did on my wife!

Flem, I'm taking tomorrow off just in case. My wife got her second two weeks ago and my daughter a few days later. Both had somewhat bad reactions. The good thing is it normally only last 24 hours so I can deal with that. Gives me a good excuse to take a nap. 

I had my first Astro Zenica Shot yesterday and absolutely zero reactions. Get the second shot in 12 weeks time.Cant do much bow wise here, been raining non stop for about 10 days.Sick of the sight and sound of it!.

Basically I feel like I was in a brawl yesterday, sore muscles all over. No problem sleeping as long as I didn't roll over on my left arm. Taking it easy today.

this is my first attempt to make an oak bow, It has a set of 1-inch, and the draw weight is a bit lower than my expectation. I'll try to temper it (heat treatment) to add a little reflex.

Looks good.   All my oak boards came in a little light.   Not the wood though.  Just need to go slower.

Quote from: zhangkeyang on April 07, 2021, 11:13:01 AM
this is my first attempt to make an oak bow, It has a set of 1-inch, and the draw weight is a bit lower than my expectation.

No surprise, it is tough to do a board bow without at least a bit of set. Looks like a nice bend and handle details. How wide is it?


Mark