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What does Ash look like?

Started by slayer1, March 12, 2008, 12:43:00 PM

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slayer1

Does anyone have pictures of what Ash looks like as a veneer or riser wood?

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Slayer1
I've done a little work with Ash.  It is pretty hard and its grain is relatively open like oak. It is pretty light in collor, not as light as maple but lighter than oak, and I don't know if I've seen any of it that has much feature to it.
It is said to handle shock very well and that is why many if not most wooden baseball bats are made of it.
I do have a riser I built of Ash in the late 80s or early 90s.  It isn't much to look at, but shoots well. I'm not sure if the riser material really has much to do with that or not.  Sometimes you make a bow that just seems to put them where you are looking.

Izzy

PM 91Stormvet, hes got a sweet BigEast made entirely of ash.Ive made arrows from it and it did look much like oak but colored more like hickory.

slayer1

The reason I am asking is I found a bow for sale that has a kingwood riser with, maple cores and Ash limbs veneers. The problem is the guy does not have a camera and cannot send pictures. Before I spent the $ I was curious to what it looked like.

ChristopherO

Look at an unpainted Loisville Slugger baseball bat as they were and should still be make of ash.  It is a very white wood when cut.  I have dried ash staves in my garage which are still very white throughout.  Not much in the way of charactor but a solid wood.  I think birch wood or birch veneer has more appeal to it than ash in the way of looks.  Won't be an eye popper of a bow like zebra wood, osage or the like but it should shoot fine.  It all depends on the price you are paying for it.

Jeremy

Depends on the ash veneer the bowyer used.  I have a few boards of curly ash that rival some of the curly maple veneers I've seen.
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Slayer1
Here's some plain looking ash veneer. Like Jeremy said depends on the ash the bowyer used. Terry has a bow with Tamo ash veneer's that is OUTSTANDING.
 
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slayer1

Thanks guys! This really helps.

HATCHCHASER

Hey Scott.  Buy it and send it to me and I will let you know if you will like it or should just let me keep it.  :bigsmyl:
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kennym

Heres the only pic I have handy of ash,as said before,unlike this piece,some of it is very wild!!

                 
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red elm,red elm,ash,walnut
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2fletch

Scott, I forgot that I had an ash bow here at the shop. It is a self bow that I made for my mother-in-law. Remember to ask me about it.

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