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Offline Joec123able

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First break in a looong time
« on: June 12, 2014, 04:17:04 pm »
This mulberry just blew up on me And to me it looks like the wood was too dry is why it blew it up What do you think ? It's been over a year and a half since I broke one so I guess my time was coming haha



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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: First break in a looong time
« Reply #1 on: June 12, 2014, 04:23:55 pm »
Looks like a rot or fungus to me Joe.
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Offline Joec123able

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Re: First break in a looong time
« Reply #2 on: June 12, 2014, 04:32:39 pm »
Yep I think you're right didn't even think about that bit looking at it now seems very likely
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: First break in a looong time
« Reply #3 on: June 12, 2014, 04:35:04 pm »
Its pretty clean and pretty thorough. Like it was unhealthy through.
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Offline Badger

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Re: First break in a looong time
« Reply #4 on: June 12, 2014, 04:45:19 pm »
  That grayish color looks to be spalted? bacteria can play hell on the sap wood.
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Offline Stickhead

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Re: First break in a looong time
« Reply #5 on: June 12, 2014, 05:12:23 pm »
Wish my record was as good.  Been breaking 'em a bunch lately.
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Offline dwardo

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Re: First break in a looong time
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2014, 05:47:05 pm »
Looks like a broken bit of crumbly Cheshire cheese.  :-\
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: First break in a looong time
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2014, 06:24:49 pm »
Quote from: PEARL DRUMS on June 12, 2014, 04:23:55 pm
Looks like a rot or fungus to me Joe.

I'm seen mulberries that were eaten  up by something making the wood not so great. I don't know if there is some disease they get, or what. I'm noticed it though. I have a stave from a tree I cut, the mulberry tree has something crazy going on with it. The sapwood didn't seem to even be there. When I finally got to look at it closely, it was a very thin layer of sapwood, and it was discolored dark too. I thought I had found the rare species of mulberry that comes with the sapwood already removed! :) The wood looks kinda airy and not so great, but it is a pretty heavy stave still for mulberry, so I figure sometime I will try a bow from it.
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Offline Joec123able

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Re: First break in a looong time
« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2014, 08:19:27 pm »
Yea it's definetly not a healthy tree it looks like foam inside the limb where it broke
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