Curly maple and ...???

[mooseman76]

I love curly maple as a limb veneer.  Tell me what do you think natural or stained?  What riser wood to go with it?  I thought about grey stained with grey actionwood riser, cocobolo riser with stained maple, as well as a few other combos.  As always pictures are a very welcom addition.  Thanks...Mike

[BowMIke]

Mike,
It's hard to beat either Cocobola or Bacote. Either would contrast well with Curly Maple.

[Easykeeper]

Cocobolo with figured maple looks great.  Here's a 59'er with cocobolo, maple I-beam, stained maple limbs.

[R. W. Mackey]

Mike:  Saw a Bob Lee at Tannehill with the Curly Mable dyed grey veneers, was very nice. He had it on a solid black phenolic riser with cross cutt grey actionwood overlays and stripes through the riser. Really looked good together.  RW

[Izzy]

Anything goes with curly maple but coco is really fine. My sons Griffin is grey stained curly maple with coco riser and it looks awesome.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

How about some Macassar ebony? or maybe some Zebra wood?

[BOHO]

any kind of stain will bring out the grain which to me looks much better. I think a riser like kingwood or similar would look great with it.

[Rick Perry]

I believe dye brings out the figure better than stain ............. JMHO

[awbowman]

I like a darker limb bow so I say stained.

[David McLendon]

Gray Curly maple and Amarillo accents in the riser. Or gray curly maple and phenolic riser and a little ziricote with horn tips. It is hard to beat gray curly maple for a true hunting bow.

[Night Wing]

The take down recurve below has a riser that is cocobolo footed with natural (unstained) curly maple. The limbs are covered with a natural (unstained) curly maple veneer.

[Terry Green]

Some veneers need at least a hint of stain just so they don't look 'raw'....now much stain is up to you....or, you can go for the raw look.

[riverrat 2]

Ziricote and natural Curly Maple are a dandy combo.

[Chromebuck]

Easykeeper,

That Ash tree looks familiar?  Obviously you had at one time owned this Griffin.  The 59er with coco riser is a stunning bow.
 
~CB

[tippit]

It's also nice to have something to match those Curly Maple limbs    tippit

 

[LYONEL]

Hey Kirk,
That zebra & curly maple combo looks nice, the more Sasquatches  I see the happier  I am I have one on order.