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Offline half eye

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Little ironwood bendy (scrapwood)
« on: April 02, 2015, 09:24:16 am »
Fellas,
     Larry built a "stave splitter" last year using a hydrolic arm from a big dozer. The first piece we put in it was a small diameter ironwood. That poor piece of wood basically exploded, had the heart wood ripped right out, stress checks everywhere.....well it wasn't pretty. This is a small sliver from the remains.
     7/8" wide, 1/2" tips, and 48-1/2" long. Thickness was an issue since the center of the bow had/has a large tear-out still remaining. The bow gave me 35# @ 26" of draw. As way to measure some sense of performance I flight shoot a 462.97 grain (30g) and got an average of 105 yards, the farthest arrow went 108yards.
     Regular pics, plus close up's of the wood it self. I got to believe that ironwood is some GOOD wood for sure.
anything I didn't cover please let me know. Also none of the checks or knots are superglued no alterations at all.....just to see if it would hold together.
rich

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Re: Little ironwood bendy (scrapwood)
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2015, 09:25:09 am »
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Offline ajooter

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Re: Little ironwood bendy (scrapwood)
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2015, 09:51:26 am »
Sweet bend for sure...gonna get my hands on some ironwood shortly.

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Re: Little ironwood bendy (scrapwood)
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2015, 09:58:26 am »
Nice bend it that little baby.  ;)
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Re: Little ironwood bendy (scrapwood)
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2015, 10:01:36 am »
Cool bow Rich.  I want to see pics of that stave splitter :)

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Re: Little ironwood bendy (scrapwood)
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2015, 10:02:10 am »
Beautiful tiler! Jawge
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Re: Little ironwood bendy (scrapwood)
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2015, 10:37:54 am »
    Very nice bend on that one.

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Re: Little ironwood bendy (scrapwood)
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2015, 10:39:36 am »
Great little bent stick n' string!  :)
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Re: Little ironwood bendy (scrapwood)
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2015, 11:35:32 am »
Thank you guy's....this was an experiment to see how much of effect the checking would have as well as the tear-out. In the one picture you can see a bigger piece right above this one....so we'll see how that goes.

Badger, the bow "seemed" pretty good for it's size and weight, but dont know if the cast for arrow weight backs that up. Seems to be fairly snappy for what it is.

Pappy  ;)

Idaho, Larry's in Fla. but I called him to find out where he parked it....will get the pics as soon as he gets back w/ me. His band-mill, splitter etc. can be at anyone of 3 different "yards".

Thanks Jawge
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Re: Little ironwood bendy (scrapwood)
« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2015, 01:16:24 pm »
is this ironwood the same thing as sheoak/austrailian pine?

cause if it is i have 10gazillion of those things within walking distance of my house.   not to mention 3 very nice straight saplings drying on my balcony...
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Re: Little ironwood bendy (scrapwood)
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2015, 01:36:13 pm »
is this ironwood the same thing as sheoak/austrailian pine?

cause if it is i have 10gazillion of those things within walking distance of my house.   not to mention 3 very nice straight saplings drying on my balcony...
 

Different.  This is Hophornbeam.
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Re: Little ironwood bendy (scrapwood)
« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2015, 02:34:06 pm »
Ahhh... OK. .. darn
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Re: Little ironwood bendy (scrapwood)
« Reply #12 on: April 02, 2015, 03:35:23 pm »
Nice bend.
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Re: Little ironwood bendy (scrapwood)
« Reply #13 on: April 02, 2015, 05:22:01 pm »
Rich,
            26" outa 48"? :o :o :o And from a sub-par piece of wood, that thing is checked from one end to the other...Looks like you worked some magic man that's bending right there... ;)
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Re: Little ironwood bendy (scrapwood)
« Reply #14 on: April 02, 2015, 05:46:34 pm »
Cool shorty, I wonder how all the "ironwoods" compare against each other.