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Title: Identify this wood
Post by: Roadking71865 on October 17, 2012, 09:32:00 PM
What type of wood is this and will it make a good selfbow?

 (http://[img]http://i1300.photobucket.com/albums/ag100/roadking71865/Woodpic_zps54b21cc1.png)[/IMG]
Title: Re: Identify this wood
Post by: turmoiler on October 18, 2012, 08:16:00 PM
I managed to get the picture:

  (http://i1300.photobucket.com/albums/ag100/roadking71865/Woodpic_zps54b21cc1.png)
Title: Re: Identify this wood
Post by: wapiti1997 on October 26, 2012, 01:42:00 PM
It looks like American elm to me, but if you split it easily, that's not what it is...  The other treebark it resembles to me is chinkapin oak...
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