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Offline bubby

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black locust?
« on: January 23, 2011, 02:18:25 am »
got some black locust cut, the two half's are5' and the other is 6', think I can get a 29" draw from the short ones or size them down for billets?

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« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2011, 02:24:15 am »
Are you sure that is black locust? Might be the pics but it doesn't look like it to me.
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Re: black locust?
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2011, 02:30:08 am »
Quote from: Pat B on January 23, 2011, 02:24:15 am
Are you sure that is black locust? Might be the pics but it doesn't look like it to me.

I was kinda thinking the same thing.
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Offline aero86

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« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2011, 02:41:59 am »
i personally dontknow what the interior of it looks like, but that whole log has thorns at the bottom of it in that pic.. unless im just seeing things..
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« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2011, 02:53:17 am »
pretty shure it's locust,my tree book is old and the pics are b&w, what don't look right to you guy's,  no thorns at the bottom thats actually light in a shadow, but in the pic it does look like thorns
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Offline crooketarrow

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« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2011, 08:37:33 am »
   Yea BL is really yellow. Looks like it could be hornbeam.
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Offline jthompson1995

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« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2011, 09:06:05 am »
The color of the heartwood and the bark look a lot like honey locust.
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Offline luke the drifter

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« Reply #7 on: January 23, 2011, 09:21:52 am »
did it propellor twist on you when you split it?  i could not tell from the pictures.  i would love to work with black locust but have never had any luck getting anything straight and not twisted.  i do not have the experience to steam bend, heat gun, or weights options to take the twist out of a twisted stave.
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Offline Hrothgar

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« Reply #8 on: January 23, 2011, 09:35:32 am »
Looks like BL to me, I think the core wood is usually brown.
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Offline sailordad

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« Reply #9 on: January 23, 2011, 10:27:02 am »
from what i can see of the bark
it doesnt look like BL,could be HL wit them big ol thorns like that jmho
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Offline nclonghunter

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« Reply #10 on: January 23, 2011, 10:36:22 am »
That's locust bark, but it does favor the honey locust I have cut, which would be my guess. It will make a good bow when dry.

Have fun with it!
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Offline John K

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« Reply #11 on: January 23, 2011, 11:30:50 am »
Could be BLK Locust, i cut some last year that didnt have the real yellow heart wood, i think it's the kind of soil it grows in. Woring on a piece of it now.

Good luck with your bow i think you could 29 with the shorter ones, just keep your bow wide and flip the tips alittle to help with the string angle.

Have fun !
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« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2011, 11:36:04 am »
Honey locust has a relatively smooth bark(some with thorn clusters and some without). BL has a furrowed bark that is usually darker in color but the color is not a good ID criteria. The sapwood of BL is creamy white and the heartwood is from a yellow green color to a slightly darker olive green color. Also because BL is so dense it would be more polished in appearance on the end cuts and not "fuzzy" like this wood appears to me.
   What ID book do you have, Buddy?  Can you get pics of a similar tree so we can see the limb structure and crown? Are there roselike thorns on the smaller branches? Did you cut the tree yourself as a living tree?
  I'm not trying to hassle you. Wood type effects bow design so proper ID is necessary for successful bow building.  ;)
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Offline fusizoli

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« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2011, 11:39:17 am »
Japanese locust or Bl ? This is the question!  ;D
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« Reply #14 on: January 23, 2011, 11:42:47 am »
fusizoli, do you have a botanical name fro Japanese locust?
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