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Title: What wood combos do you like ?
Post by: KELLEY40 on March 17, 2007, 07:34:00 PM

I have a new bow ordered and was wanting opinions on favorite wood combos you like for riser and limbs?
cocobolo seems hard to beat in a riser,but looking for opinions on differant wood combos.
It will be for a longbow.
Thanks.....Ron  :help:

Title: Re: What wood combos do you like ?
Post by: MAC on March 17, 2007, 08:30:00 PM

bamboo or osage goes good with cocobolo I think, maybe a cocobolo riser with a osage stripe and osage limbs, or solid cocobolo riser with bamboo limbs

Title: Re: What wood combos do you like ?
Post by: Bucksnort101 on March 17, 2007, 08:53:00 PM

I'm partial to Cocobolo and Curly Maple. Coco and Osage with some Bocote is growing on me also.
Cocobolo and almost anything goes well together in my opinion.
Gaboon Ebony, Bloodwood, and Osage can make a nice looking bow as well.

Title: Re: What wood combos do you like ?
Post by: KELLEY40 on March 17, 2007, 08:58:00 PM

Thanks. i like the look of bocote with cocobolo.
Ron

Title: Re: What wood combos do you like ?
Post by: DesertDude on March 17, 2007, 11:25:00 PM

I like things simple.  Cocobolo riser with either Yew or Osage Limbs.  clean and classic

Mark

Title: Re: What wood combos do you like ?
Post by: Longbows4life on March 17, 2007, 11:29:00 PM

cocobola and bocote riser with juniper venners. but the bocote has to be dark and figurative same with the cocobola. also the junipe needs to be about half redish and half withish with some character .know that would make my perfect combo for me.

Title: Re: What wood combos do you like ?
Post by: Starkman on March 18, 2007, 12:15:00 AM

Got a Dwyer that should be here next week, Osage/Cocobolo Riser, yew limbs (bamboo core).  I like the yellowish/orangish look of the yew and osage with the contrast of the reddish cocobolo.

Title: Re: What wood combos do you like ?
Post by: Golden Hawk on March 18, 2007, 04:24:00 AM

Pretty hard to pick just one combo. My favorite riser combos include Zircote and Osage, Koa and Ebony, Cocobolo and Zebrawood.

Title: Re: What wood combos do you like ?
Post by: chris K. on March 18, 2007, 04:44:00 AM

bamboo and bubinga goes good together.

Title: Re: What wood combos do you like ?
Post by: Voodoofire1 on March 18, 2007, 06:06:00 AM

Here's one I'm building for my buddy Jeff, it's Pao Ferro with a piece of curly maple from one of my trees, and a phenolic overlay, the limbs are very figured bocote, a nice looking combo that would look great in cocobolo too. but my personal favorite is bloodwood, I just built an all bloodwood longbow but it's a little heavy 120# @30 and I draw 30, have to do a little trimming, about 15# or so, but it's a shooter for sure.

  (http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f175/voodoofire1/JeffsLefty001.jpg)

Title: Re: What wood combos do you like ?
Post by: Danny Rowan on March 18, 2007, 06:15:00 AM

ebony, either gaboon or macasser or stripped. The black gaboon goes well with most any other wood the stripped is great just by itself.

Danny

Title: Re: What wood combos do you like ?
Post by: Barclay on March 18, 2007, 06:17:00 AM

Bubinga and black locust look nice together,

Title: Re: What wood combos do you like ?
Post by: john gerrard on March 18, 2007, 06:21:00 AM

Kelly, Because no two pieces of wood look alike it's really hard to tell without actually being there and looking at the wood.The last bow I ordered was from Ancient Spirits and I just told Tracy "you're there looking at the wood so just pick out something really nice for me". He choose sasafrass for the limbs. Now that is probably one of the last woods I would have chosen but they turned out to be some of the nicest limbs I've ever seen. He used honduras rosewood for the riser to make me a very, very good looking bow. So sometimes it's nice to give the bowyer an idea of what you want then let them use their artistic ability to choose what they think matches up good.  Brokenwing

Title: Re: What wood combos do you like ?
Post by: bentpole on March 18, 2007, 07:21:00 AM

kelly I'm with you bocote/cocoabolla is real nice.But the more I look I also like bubinga/blacklocust and ebony/osage.One of the prettiest risers I have seem in a long time is one that Bob Morrison has on his "instock" Dakotas.It's macasser ebony with osage looks like a killer bee check it out if you get a chance.

Title: Re: What wood combos do you like ?
Post by: KELLEY40 on March 18, 2007, 01:14:00 PM

I'll have to go check some sites and take a look!My liberty i just got is cocobolo riser and yew limbs.My Griffin was cocobolo riser and yew back.
Thanks......Ron

Title: Re: What wood combos do you like ?
Post by: McK on March 18, 2007, 02:37:00 PM

Hi Ron,
  That Griffin gets better looking every day, thanks again.  I really like ziricote for a riser, and think it would really shine with yew limbs.  Course the individual piece of wood often makes more difference than the variety.
  McK

Title: Re: What wood combos do you like ?
Post by: BMOELLER on March 18, 2007, 04:43:00 PM

Macassar ebony and bocote.

Title: Re: What wood combos do you like ?
Post by: KELLEY40 on March 18, 2007, 05:08:00 PM

Hi,McK
Your Griffin is one of the nicest looking longbows i've seen!!!!!!!!  :clapper:
I've seen GREAT looking cocobolo and not so GREAT,i guess you can say that about all the woods!!!
I'm going to check out some of the woods you all have mentioned and see what they look like!
Thanks to everyone.....Ron

Title: Re: What wood combos do you like ?
Post by: Shawn Leonard on March 18, 2007, 05:29:00 PM

Cocobola and Osage make a real pretty rise. I would go with coco dymondwood though as it adds some mass and is tough as nails. I have a Kwyk styk with Bacote and coco,but like osage much better. Shawn