Hophornbeam is significantly harder than oak. While oak has a Janka hardness of around 1290-1360, hophornbeam's Janka hardness is a much higher 4500-5060
Most common is that you think your lightly pushing down but forcibly pushing forward, where in fact you are forcibly pushing down and forward on an angle.
My old boss used to cut 1/2 inch in then transfer this to the next face 90 degrees off and try to follow both guide cuts.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bushcraft/comments/qce0n9/why_do_my_30_bow_saw_cuts_always_look_like_this/
Well I finished cutting my Shiitake mushroom logs - two Hophornbeam trees!
Shiitake: Alder, Beech, Ironwood/Hophornbeam, Hornbeam, Oak, Sweetgum
https://redwoodmushroomsupply.com/pages/how-to-grow-mushrooms-outdoors-on-logs
So I've grown Shiitake on Alder and Oak before - also ... Willow... and Birch...
So now I am trying a Basswood tree - which is soft, an Oak tree and two Hophornbeam trees.
I'll have a total of 23 logs at 3 feet long....
How to avoid the crooked cut...
Well the blade is way too loose for one thing... But this wood is super super hard.
I put on a new blade after the first Hophornbeam tree - and good thing!!
Sep 27, 2022 — I've got about 6 of these in my pasture was wondering if they make good bow wood. Wood is so hard it dulls my saw very quickly.
So it was not just my imagination! hahaha
I think my neighbor is gonna make bows out of some of these trees?
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