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Offline bushboy

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Re: more bloody kindling
« Reply #15 on: May 22, 2015, 06:50:16 am »
Agreed!looks diffuse porous.maple,poplar?
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Offline bushboy

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« Reply #16 on: May 22, 2015, 07:04:29 am »
This is ash.
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Offline WillS

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« Reply #17 on: May 22, 2015, 07:12:03 am »
I'm fairly certain that's not ash, Jayman.  Makes it much harder to build a bow if you're working with unknown wood, as they all have different strengths and weaknesses amongst the species.

What works for ash certainly won't work for something like poplar or maple if that's what you're actually using.
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Offline jayman448

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« Reply #18 on: May 22, 2015, 12:10:11 pm »
Nope, no im not. I got a board from some guy with his own mill and he said it could be ash. I dont know if it is for sure.
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Offline WillS

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« Reply #19 on: May 22, 2015, 01:47:59 pm »
He's in the wrong job  :D
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Offline bushboy

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Re: more bloody kindling
« Reply #20 on: May 22, 2015, 06:00:25 pm »
If it's fairly heavy, it's prob maple,although maple doesn't frett easily.perhaps paper birch?
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Offline jayman448

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Re: more bloody kindling
« Reply #21 on: May 22, 2015, 08:03:20 pm »
Its light as a feather. Its darker than the paper birch i have but i guess its possible. Id have thought maple would have stood up better than that. ... i really need to learn my trees... xD
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Offline WillS

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« Reply #22 on: May 22, 2015, 08:32:50 pm »
Sounds and looks like poplar.  in which case you were screwed before you even cut it out!
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Offline jayman448

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« Reply #23 on: May 22, 2015, 08:44:06 pm »
That much i know xD
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« Reply #24 on: May 23, 2015, 02:04:01 am »
And I forgot to say that our English ash is much better than the American species by the sounds of it!
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Offline jayman448

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« Reply #25 on: May 23, 2015, 02:28:39 am »
Well my next attempts will hopefully be iron wood and then i may have tracied down an area near by for saskatoon. My neighbour will let me take all the birch i want... but that all means waiting ungodly lengths of time to have any fun xD. Maybe ill occupy myself with making arrows in the meantime xD
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Offline WillS

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Re: more bloody kindling
« Reply #26 on: May 23, 2015, 08:46:38 am »
I'd not waste too much time with the birch either ;)

Makes great arrows though.
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Offline jayman448

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« Reply #27 on: May 23, 2015, 11:28:19 am »
Ive got to find an excuse to get to  the coast. Get myself some decent wood
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