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Cherry Bark Backing Build Along
AndrewS:
@GregB
Dont panic.
I got the bark I used from trees that were dead for several month. Then yo can remove the bark very easily. Frank (medicinwheel) explains in this topic another method: http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,2269.0.html ;)
@BryanB
If you want to have no wrappings, you need to have a big cherry-tree. For a piece of 30" you need a tree with 11 - 12" diameter. On this big cherry trees the bark often is injured and so you can't use it.
330bull:
Bryan B:
If you use a piece of bark that is cut vertically, and then placed lengthwise on the limbs, you will probably have a 99% failure rate. What I mean by that is because of two things:
1. The bark's grain is actually structured and running around the tree, not vertically.
2. The bark has defects throughout it that I would only compare to "eyes". These run with the bark's grain too.
If you cut a strip that runs the length of the tree and then transfer them to a limb, both the grain and eye defects will be running perpendicular to the limb. This is bad and will probably create several separations of the bark.
Look at Pic #24 and see how the "eyes" run with the limb. If you placed those 90 degrees, can you see how those defects could easily separate?
Make sense?
Hartung:
Nice build along. Thanks for showing.
Hillbilly:
ttt
richpierce:
What kind of cherry is this? Black cherry (furniture wood, Prunus serotina) or pin cherry (Prunus pennsylvanica)?
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