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Offline vinemaplebows

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Re: Does this look like yew
« Reply #15 on: March 04, 2013, 11:33:25 pm »
He's got us on a string holding out on the "true" ID,  lets see some pics of needles or whatever is grow on this tree! :D
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Offline TacticalFate

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Re: Does this look like yew
« Reply #16 on: March 04, 2013, 11:56:44 pm »
Looks like  fast-growing ornamental yew to me, I've got a few pieces for carving, and they all have bark like that, big rings, and light heartwood.
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Offline randman

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Re: Does this look like yew
« Reply #17 on: March 05, 2013, 01:16:35 am »
One way to tell if it is Juniper or Yew would be by the smell. Any juniper is hard to miss by the smell. Yew doesn't smell real fragrant - just kind of a sweet woody smell.
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Offline rps3

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Re: Does this look like yew
« Reply #18 on: March 05, 2013, 05:55:20 am »
Thanks for the responses. I feel like an idiot for not saving the needles or taking pics when cut, but it doesnt have any odor. It was several main branches from one base, and there are some staves with much tighter growth rings, but smaller diameter.
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Does this look like yew
« Reply #19 on: March 05, 2013, 08:29:49 am »
Looks like the ornamental yew bush/shrub that grows all around my sisters house. If you let them grow they will get "bow" sized if your lucky.
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Offline burn em up chuck

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Re: Does this look like yew
« Reply #20 on: March 05, 2013, 08:42:38 am »
   very bendy, very cool,

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Offline Del the cat

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Re: Does this look like yew
« Reply #21 on: March 05, 2013, 09:00:26 am »
Yes/maybe
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Offline aaron

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Re: Does this look like yew
« Reply #22 on: March 05, 2013, 11:29:10 am »
(just for the record, yew is not a conifer- it has "berries", not cones)
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Offline Weylin

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Re: Does this look like yew
« Reply #23 on: March 05, 2013, 11:39:02 am »
*pushes glasses up on nose* well, actually... The seed cones are highly modified, each cone containing a single seed 4–7 mm long partly surrounded by a modified scale which develops into a soft, bright red berry-like structure called an aril, 8–15 mm long and wide and open at the end.


Ok, I copied that off of Wikipedia.  ::) But they are a conifer. They just look like berries.  :)
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Re: Does this look like yew
« Reply #24 on: March 05, 2013, 11:48:29 am »
Quote from: Weylin on March 05, 2013, 11:39:02 am
*pushes glasses up on nose* well, actually... The seed cones are highly modified, each cone containing a single seed 4–7 mm long partly surrounded by a modified scale which develops into a soft, bright red berry-like structure called an aril, 8–15 mm long and wide and open at the end.


Ok, I copied that off of Wikipedia.  ::) But they are a conifer. They just look like berries.  :)


Thanks professor ;)  :laugh:
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Offline aaron

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Re: Does this look like yew
« Reply #25 on: March 05, 2013, 09:56:48 pm »
(stands corrected.)
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Offline Bitterguy

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Re: Does this look like yew
« Reply #26 on: March 05, 2013, 10:28:48 pm »
No, I don't look like a bow. I have arms,legs and a face and such  :P  ;D
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Does this look like yew
« Reply #27 on: March 05, 2013, 10:57:46 pm »
I think it could be an ornamental yew.  I have cut some where the bark looks like that, but the heartwood was almost bright red/pink.  What does the end of that log cut look like? 
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Offline rps3

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Re: Does this look like yew
« Reply #28 on: March 06, 2013, 12:09:44 am »
As you describe it Carson, more reddish pink on the ends when just cut. Do you think I can expect some good bows from this wood.? I have quite a bit big enough for full size bows.
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Re: Does this look like yew
« Reply #29 on: March 06, 2013, 04:24:16 am »
Apart from the very low ring count.....yew
Come on guys what the debate for! Obvious ain't it? ;)
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