Tree ID please...question about bark now...

[ajooter]

I think it's some type of hickory...pignut?

[PatM]

Some type of hickory. Could also be bitternut hickory.

[ajooter]

that was another candidate in my tree book...it is telephone pole straight!

[BowEd]

I'd say hickory too.Got a lot of that here so I'm pretty sure.

[ajooter]

the bark is really sticking...I'm getting most of it off though.

[Jim Davis]

Probably pignut--best bow hickory. Bitternut has 7 to 11 leaflets. This has 5.

[Pappy]

Looks like Pignut to me, it makes a great bow, just keep it dry as you work it.
 Pappy

[ajooter]

This bark is reallyour sticking.  What's your experience with hickory bark/cambium? I can get the bark off but there is still quite a bit of cambium.  I had one stave check on the back when I left the cambium on.

[PatM]

Many people leave cambium in the low spots. Gives a good camo to the finished back.

[Eric Krewson]

After mid summer the bark glues itself on. I cut 17 hickory staves several years ago in late summer, it took me a couple of weeks to get all the bark and cambium off them, very labor intensive.