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Offline redwasp

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sweet gum anyone?
« on: February 03, 2008, 12:10:01 pm »
anybody tried this wood. Seems to me it would work well, does'nt check or crack and is hard as hell.
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Offline Hillbilly

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Re: sweet gum anyone?
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2008, 12:17:15 pm »
There's a guy who used to post on here made some sweetgum bows, he said it was decent bow wood.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: sweet gum anyone?
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2008, 12:33:26 pm »
You'll play heck trying to split out a stave! ;D Talk about interlocking grain. :o  I remember as a kid spending one whole winter trying to split a piece of gum firewood. Never did get it split.    Pat 
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Re: sweet gum anyone?
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2008, 01:33:22 pm »
LOL ,, Pat I know what ya mean,, I stuck two wedges and a maul in a block one time as a young man, learned real fast what gum was  ;D White elm is about as bad,, I beat on a 6 inch log for about half an hour a few weeks ago,, thought it was red elm when I cut it and didn't want to waste it so I knocked it apart,, took the other section home and kerfed it with a chainsaw.

Gum if cut from a live tree and stored well should make a good bow, wide and long.

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