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Title: Kentucky Coffee Bean for backing?
Post by: dosbow56 on January 28, 2007, 02:48:00 PM

Has anyone used this as a backing or for a bow? Just wondering how that worked out for ya. It seems to have some of the same characteristics of Hickory.
Dave

Title: Re: Kentucky Coffee Bean for backing?
Post by: dosbow56 on January 29, 2007, 05:50:00 PM

Nobody's ever used any? Not really up for being the ginnaue pig.........

Title: Re: Kentucky Coffee Bean for backing?
Post by: Dano on January 29, 2007, 07:46:00 PM

Dave, I think Ralph Renfro might know something about that wood, but I have been wrong before.  :D

Title: Re: Kentucky Coffee Bean for backing?
Post by: Ralph Renfro on January 29, 2007, 08:35:00 PM

Yeppir, I've made bows of KCT. In fact, I'll have some staves at OJAM in March. Makes a good shooting bow. Build it like you would a whitewood bow.

Title: Re: Kentucky Coffee Bean for backing?
Post by: BigMedicine on January 29, 2007, 09:23:00 PM

Look at the Bear's Paw website.  Neil Jacobsen had a take-down on there a few weeks ago with Kentucky Coffee Bean limbs.  Here's the only pic on the website with Kentucky coffee bean now, but you might e-mail him for a pic of the limbs.

 (http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i89/zachjweber/cocoboloandcoffeebean.jpg)

Title: Re: Kentucky Coffee Bean for backing?
Post by: dosbow56 on January 29, 2007, 10:19:00 PM

Thanks guys, I'm thinking more of using it for a KCTO.....gonna try a different type of splice with that as a backing.
Dave