I've been wanting to try Hickory for lams in limbs and I'm wondering if anyone here has used it.  Would appreciate hearing comments and experiences. I usually pair maple (belly lam) with boo (back lam) and will probably do the same with Hickory.

I remember Bill Howland said he made his own actionwood from Hickory. He said it worked very well in his recurves when shooting heavy arrows. Myself I have not tried it.

I haven't tested any with it , but in the Walk the Talk competition a few years back hickory placed high if I remember right

What Bue and Kenny said.
The WTT bow had hickory Pell. But blew at Compton don't think the reason was determined other than maybe a bad layup.

Stic - was that two Hickory parallels with the WTT bow? Thanks for the input guys. I'm gonna give it a go.

I message the builder he said it had a prll and an .002 taper  with tip wedges and power lamps. I would imagine his design was the key to 201 fps. That was a 6 in. Brace and six strand string. Was still in the 190s at hunting setup. FYI all the speeds were recorded of controlled shooting machine.

That one was only glass with no carbon too , Mike ?

No carbon. The pics are all gone on that site was back when we all used photobucket

Stic - Now I'm curious about that bow. Do you know what length it was and what about its configuration? Thanks.

Okay I went to the Pirates of archery site.
Look for WTT 3 results and they have fd curves and some of the pics are there but very poor. TJ Estemeyer was the hickory bow and said it was 66 in.

http://piratesofarchery.net/bb/viewforum.php?f=25&sid=6e5fc96090535460fde489c28e38a033

Thanks guys,

Mike, there was another hickory bow built by Feral Donkey the creator of the site. For a straight longbow without any backset it had very impressive speed-

The interesting thing about Hickory is it can take a temper like bamboo-

 Yes I remember Ferals bow.

Got around to building a bow with hickory core lams, belly only boo in back. 57" NTN 40# DW

Nice looking bow How does it shoot?

  Beautiful lines at full draw...  What does she look like at brace???

I like it

Flem - It shoots fine, but I don't notice any increase in arrow speed over same design with maple/boo. When the weather eases I'll get the chrony out and compare numbers. I did notice that there was less spring back when I pulled it off the form.

Shredd - some pics below.

Thanks for the comments guys.

Very nice.