« previous next »
Pages: [1]

Author Topic: I cant find a ring!  (Read 3560 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline benjamin

  • Member
  • Posts: 105
I cant find a ring!
« on: October 13, 2008, 09:57:20 pm »
I found a blacklocust tree hidden where no one would miss it... moving on. I went down two heartwood rings and pealed it for a few inches and now I CANNOT find where the ring ends to keep peeling. I hate to do it with hand tools but I'm about this close from decrowming this thing... hey, what would a boackwards BL bow be like?
Logged

Offline mullet

  • Global Moderator
  • Member
  • Posts: 22,890
  • Eddie Parker
Re: I cant find a ring!
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2008, 10:19:56 pm »
  I can't comment. I couldn't find the ring the first time I tried BL either. I gave it away and the guy I gave it to broke it.
Logged
Lakeland, Florida
 If you have to pull the trigger, is it really archery?

Offline D. Tiller

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,507
  • Go ahead! Bend that stick! Make my day!!!
    • Whidbey Island Soap Co.
Re: I cant find a ring!
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2008, 10:21:51 pm »
Its thick on the sapwood. Where the end cut is will show you where the sapwood begins and ends.
Logged
“People are less likely to shoot at you if you smile at them” - Mad Jack Churchill

Offline El Destructo

  • Member
  • Posts: 8,078
  • Longhaired Crippled Hippie Biker And Proud Of It!!
    • Desert Sportz Primitive Archery
Re: I cant find a ring!
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2008, 10:42:41 pm »
                        I have made De crowned Paddle Bows with Locust before.....they turned out just fine...........

Get down through the Sapwood....and the rings are a lot easier to follow....you can a;so try shoe polish...it helps to track the ring you are scraping on.
Logged
As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up ways to kill one another.Why do you think we invented politics and religion.
Think HEALTHCARE Is Expensive Now,Wait Till It's FREE
Do Or Do Not,There Is No TRY
2024...We Will Overcome

Offline Pat B

  • Administrator
  • Member
  • Posts: 37,544
Re: I cant find a ring!
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2008, 11:04:17 pm »
Look down the stave towards bright natural light. The growth ring ought to jump out at you. Trace it with a pencil so you can keep track of it.     Pat
Logged
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC

Offline George Tsoukalas

  • Member
  • Posts: 9,425
    • Traditional and Primitive Archers
Re: I cant find a ring!
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2008, 12:10:12 am »
How do you know you lost it? BL rings are usually pretty thick. You may be in one. Otherwise, Pat gave great advice. Jawge.
Logged
Set Happens!
If you ain't breakin' you ain't makin!

Offline Pappy

  • Global Moderator
  • Member
  • Posts: 31,918
  • if you have to ask you wouldn't understand ,Tenn.
Re: I cant find a ring!
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2008, 06:06:40 am »
I use a scraper to clean the area up and then do what Pat/Jawges said.Sometimes you can walk around it and look at it from different directions and see it the like Pat said I mark it with a pencil and move on.Get one all the way across it and then move on. :)
   Pappy
Logged
Clarksville,Tennessee
TwinOaks Bowhunters
Life is Good

Offline richpierce

  • Member
  • Posts: 278
Re: I cant find a ring!
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2008, 01:10:48 pm »
I have seen several staves where BL does not have prominent rings.  I don't like it and don't think those staves are as strong.
Logged

Offline YewArcher

  • Member
  • Posts: 415
Re: I cant find a ring!
« Reply #8 on: October 14, 2008, 01:19:29 pm »
Why did you remove heart wood rings? Black locust rings are so thick usually you just remove the same wood and use the first heart wood layer?
Logged

Offline welch2

  • Member
  • Posts: 378
  • redneck heathen
Re: I cant find a ring!
« Reply #9 on: October 14, 2008, 01:45:23 pm »
Sometimes it helps to watch the rings on each edge or side too .Mark them with a pencil there and work from each side toward the center .Besides very good light ,a little water on the back can make the rings stand out also.

Ralph
Logged

Offline cracker

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,123
Re: I cant find a ring!
« Reply #10 on: October 14, 2008, 08:45:26 pm »
I some times dirty it up to make the ring visible. Ron
Logged
If we can't help each other what is the point of being here?

Offline El Destructo

  • Member
  • Posts: 8,078
  • Longhaired Crippled Hippie Biker And Proud Of It!!
    • Desert Sportz Primitive Archery
Re: I cant find a ring!
« Reply #11 on: October 14, 2008, 09:31:18 pm »
Quote from: cracker on October 14, 2008, 08:45:26 pm
I some times dirty it up to make the ring visible. Ron

Like with Shoe Paste........  ;)
Logged
As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up ways to kill one another.Why do you think we invented politics and religion.
Think HEALTHCARE Is Expensive Now,Wait Till It's FREE
Do Or Do Not,There Is No TRY
2024...We Will Overcome
Pages: [1]
« previous next »