Druid

Excelent tutorial, like very much shapeing in the form.

Very good informations my friend, thanks for sharing!

Great workshops you have there, my friends. I think that depends of our working space how we will work. I can not work in closed rooms, even now, in the winter. This is my working cabin.

My elms almost never open cracks, even when summer cut is done. I simply debark it, left cambio on and they dry very well.

Hi to all. I am new one, bowyer from Serbia. I did some density tests of wood of my country because I work in plywood making factory. My tests are done with 0% moisture content, after 12hours of drying sample. Probably results are similar with France and Espana, Czech...

Black locust heartwood 0,85;

White Ash 0,68; 0,81;

Spruce 0,39; 0,45;

European hornbeam 0,82; 0,83;

Beech 0,7; 0,76; 0,77; 0,77;

Black pine 0,38; 0,39; (sapwood) 0,95 (very old pine heartwood)

Poplar (Euroamericana) 0,44;

Juniper 0,63; (just sapwood) 0,61; (1/2 sapwood 1/2 heartwood)

Elm 0,67; 0,74;

Prunus avium 0,74;

Prunus cerasifera 0,76;

Mulberry 0,63; ( heartwood-sapwood 1:1)

Tatar maple 0,46;

Hazel 0,55 (made 90# longbow of this sample)

Ostrya carpinifolia 0,67;

Black locust sapwood 0,73; (??!!)

Black (black) locust 0,65; 0,66; 0,71; 0,72; 0,77;