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Offline Blacktail

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sinew backing green wood
« on: January 05, 2013, 01:20:05 am »
SO,has any one sinew backed green wood...for some reason in my head it sound like a BAD idea BUT on the the other hand it sounds good..i was wondering if any one has tried it..i got some juniper and its still green and would like to find out if it would work or not...just let me know if i am thinking stupid..john
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Offline PatM

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Re: sinew backing green wood
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2013, 01:25:46 am »
West Coast Natives apparently routinely sinew backed at least semi green wood. By the time you've worked a stave down with primitive tools it has likely dropped significant moisture.
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Offline PaleoNinja

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Re: sinew backing green wood
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2013, 02:11:51 am »
Sinew Backing Semi-Green wood works well because the wood is still more flexible so it picks up A-LOT of reflex.  Floor tiller it green, sinew back it. Cant wait to see it.
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Offline H Rhodes

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Re: sinew backing green wood
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2013, 04:16:31 am »
I am curious about your results too!  I have induced reflex to green staves by strapping them to a form to dry and had good results.  This sinewing idea sounds interesting.
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: sinew backing green wood
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2013, 08:57:55 am »
Never did it and never thought about it until now. Two things would concern me. One is excess moisture, mildew and mold. The other is the stave shrinking as it dries and having the backing lift.
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Offline Marc St Louis

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Re: sinew backing green wood
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2013, 09:04:39 am »
You would have to make sure that the wood does not warp after sinewing, be a bugger to do all that work on a piece of wood that was going to warp anyway.
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Re: sinew backing green wood
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2013, 09:05:43 am »
Quote from: Marc St Louis on January 05, 2013, 09:04:39 am
You would have to make sure that the wood does not warp after sinewing, be a bugger to do all that work on a piece of wood that was going to warp anyway.

Okay so three things concern me now. Heat guns and hide glue arent best friends.
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Re: sinew backing green wood
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2013, 09:07:18 am »
Once the hide glue is dry it can take quite a bit of heat
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Re: sinew backing green wood
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2013, 09:12:45 am »
Enough to realign wood Marc?
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Re: sinew backing green wood
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2013, 02:10:49 pm »
PatM is right.
I would rough the bow out let sit a week or 2 then back with sinew. The chinook clatsop people sinew backed wet yew quite often. Even farther south the modoc and hupa did the same.
Green wood pulls a lot of reflex :)
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