ORIGINAL: bigcountry
Ok, I was thinking, these boards you get, had grain all over the place. And you didn't care because you only want it for compression only. I know for Osage, it would break if you tried to floor tiller or bend without following the grain perfectly or without backing.
If you were to make a BBO, would you also try to floor tiller the core osage? Also, with IPE, is the tiller pretty close if you get the core the same dimensions. In other words, I have seen Osage from limbs that the same dimensions sure won't make the same strength limbs.
I floor tiller every core. You dont bend it much, just enough to seewhat the limbs are doing. Just bearly bending them. If I had to guess how much limbtravelit would equal, I guess about 3-4" or less.
As for Ipe, it is pretty uniform since it is tropical. Just like any wood, the denser it is, less bell you will need. And you are right about Osage. Argentine tends to be a little different than American. And two peices never tend to be the same comparing them to the equal. Or from what ive noticed.I never try to get my tappers perfect, I have just a ball park I try to hit. That way ill have plenty of wood to insure I get the weight I want when i tiller.