What is the best wood for carving a recurve bow?

Ash and yew are traditional, but you really want to build with laminations of wood and fiberglass for best results when you are talking recurve. A straight bow can be carved from any tight straight grained wood. Old popular mechanics magazines from the 1920s through the 1950s had lots of bow designs- look for something like that.

Good luck.

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