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Offline snedeker

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Re: sapling ID please
« Reply #15 on: August 22, 2008, 01:09:39 pm »
Based on just the bark pic it could be a sweet birch or Zelkova also.

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« Reply #16 on: August 22, 2008, 01:16:51 pm »
Go for it Mike, just make sure all of the limb is bending. The only BC bow I built that held up checked quite a bit.
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Re: sapling ID please
« Reply #17 on: August 22, 2008, 01:20:03 pm »
Quote from: DanaM on August 22, 2008, 01:16:51 pm
Go for it Mike, just make sure all of the limb is bending. The only BC bow I built that held up checked quite a bit.

Well then maybe I will back it with Hickory before I start....don't want to lose that piece....theres a nice Bow in there....just got to pull it to the Surface
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Re: sapling ID please
« Reply #18 on: August 22, 2008, 01:21:05 pm »
Mike if you use hickory I would keep the backing thin so you don't over power the belly :)
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Re: sapling ID please
« Reply #19 on: August 22, 2008, 01:25:46 pm »
Quote from: DanaM on August 22, 2008, 01:21:05 pm
Mike if you use hickory I would keep the backing thin so you don't over power the belly :)

  You are soooo right..maybe just a good layer of Sinew.or maybe some of that Buck Rawhide I have laying around will do then......
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Re: sapling ID please
« Reply #20 on: August 22, 2008, 02:31:07 pm »
Oooohhh, I bet sinew would look real nice on there, against the natural color of the wood.   
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« Reply #21 on: August 22, 2008, 02:58:55 pm »
Dana, I didn't realize the apple was such a good bow wood. The old man had a nice old apple tree a few years back that had killer apples on it and cut it down. I hated it because I always loved to eat the apples and now I hate it even more because he burned a lot of good wood then too, eh.

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« Reply #22 on: August 22, 2008, 03:03:31 pm »
Apple is tough wood, I have a stave drying I hope to try this winter, Its an ugly stave but it was free eh :)
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