Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: campx on September 27, 2013, 11:55:52 pm
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Went out this morning, took my girls who are 8 and 5, and got some decent vine maple, elm, and a birch of some sort just to try out. The leaves on the vine maples are turning orange and red, making them easier to see. Found some pretty straight VM in a protected draw, so they were growing more vertical and less gnarly than the usual VM i have seen.
Threw the Tikka T3 in 338 Federal in the truck too, just in case a 4 point (American 8 point!) decided it wanted to play.......no luck.
(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3769/9974895584_02cf2b609b_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/backinthecroft/9974895584/)
IMG027 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/backinthecroft/9974895584/) by CampX (http://www.flickr.com/people/backinthecroft/), on Flickr
(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2807/9974937086_d775de09bc_c.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/backinthecroft/9974937086/)
IMG041 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/backinthecroft/9974937086/) by CampX (http://www.flickr.com/people/backinthecroft/), on Flickr
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Oh ya, I tried the "score the elm with a SkilSaw' trick, and man oh man, way easier to split it! Started the split with a hatchet, then used hard wood wedges I zipped out on the band saw. Grain ran true, no ripping or tearing across the grain. I'll be using this method from now on.
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That vine maple looks awfully clean. How're you going to make a seven-curve snakey character bow from that ??? ?
Nice haul, get 'em roughed out and strapped down so you can show us those bows that are hiding in them ;D
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Looks like a classroom of work making D bows.Good score.
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What diameter does maple need to be? I mean on the minimum side.
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I made a really light D-bow from a one-inch sapling. It broke :-[ But I'm sure if I tried again I could pull it off now.
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What diameter does maple need to be? I mean on the minimum side.
1.5 inches for a hunting weight bow.
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The skinny little staves are gonna be bows for my girls. Already roughed out the limbs on 4 of them, and have them drying out back. Just got to finish that elm molly I am working on first.......
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That Canadian VM looks quite different than the oregon stuff. Are you sure it is not Douglas' maple?
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Hmmmmmm, maybe right.....
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/library/documents/treebook/vinemaple.htm
http://www.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/library/documents/treebook/douglasmaple.htm
Perhaps it is Douglas......
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If it is Douglas, dont let that stop you from making a bow from it. I would guess it is similar to VM in properties, since they are so similar overall.
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It's Douglas. I have made bows from it, but it just is not as "springy" as vine, at least where I have cut it. Just got done cutting some VM today.....oh, and hawthorn. :)
VMB
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When you make a post about vine maple, and a person with the username ' vinemaplebows' responds, you listen!!!
Funny, I am on the look out for hawthorn here too......tough to find, but usually near old homesteads around these parts.