Shedua or Myrtle

[Night Wing]

Given two different pieces of exotic wood with the exact same length, width and depth dimensions, which weighs more, african shedua or north american myrtle?

[owlbait]

Just a guess,(Does that count)?...Shedua.

[Brandon Stahl]

[joebuck]

does anybody sell Shedua anymore in 2" stock?

[Night Wing]

I need to know since I want to purchase another footed Blacktail Elite TD recurve bow and I'm looking at bubinga as the main riser wood, but I'd like to contrast the bubinga color with another lighter colored wood for the foot and myrtle is my color of choice right now. My first Blacktail Elite TD, the main riser wood was cocobolo footed with shedua. I've been on Google and I can't find out which is heavier, shedua or myrtle.

[Oliverstacy]

If it helps I have a piece of Myrtle that I'm letting dry right now and it is 27x3x5 and it weighs around 11 pounds.

Heavy wood...I did talk to a bowyer that said as a wood it isn't strong enough for a flare wood, found that interesting.  I'm going with the following in my bow on order:

Cocobolo riser with an Ebony flare with bamboo cores and curly/spalted Myrtle limbs...can't wait until December.  It's going to be Christmas twice this year.

Josh

[hogdancer]

when I got my Blacktail from Norm he told me shedua was a lighter weight wood  and my bow does seem pretty light, it's shedua footed with wenge, here is a picture.

[joebuck]

Shedua is 50#/cubic foot
Myrtle is 53#/cubic foot

I love shedua!..i thought I bought some from Fedora last time but it wasn't...shedua is strong enough for risers by themselves.