Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: JacksonCash on May 09, 2014, 11:48:57 pm
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I'm really wanting to get started on my next bow, and I think I want to do a self bow. I don't have any materials picked out yet, but I'd like to get my hands on a stave of something for it. Does anybody have some pretty forgiving self bow wood ideas?
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Jackson, post on the Trading Post. Have trade items ready. You'll get a stave.
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Takes a load of poor tillering before an osage stave will break! If well seasoned, it is not as hard to work as some folks say (them what don't know how to sharpen their tools).
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Jackson, post on the Trading Post. Have trade items ready. You'll get a stave.
I don't have too much to trade right now, unless someone is willing to give up a stave for a couple bags of goose feathers! But I recently spied some scrap from the water jet machine at work that may be just the right thickness to sharpen into broadheads...
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Goose feathers? ??? Do tell. I might be interested in some goose wing feathers. Josh
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As long as those feathers are from domestic geese, they are cool. But if they are wild geese, they are a migratory species and any trade/sale is considered a Federal violation of the Lacey Act. No sense running a-fowl of a Federal charge!
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Thus the do tell JW. I don't want any trouble of that sort! Josh
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Looks like I'll be keeping a hold of my goose feathers. Wife said she wants a quill pen... I wonder how she'd feel about a dozen of them?
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I'm actually cutting some osage out by trumansburg today. By myself :0( maybe we could work something out. I'll message ya when I figure out what I got.
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Keep me posted- Been meaning to contact you and meet up, I think you are the only one on here whose decently close.
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Neolithic man lives close, and skarhand is about an hr or so away. Got my tree cut. It had been struck by lightning so it had basically another tree inside. I'll post some pix
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Beware lightning struck trees. I had a 24" cherry trunk I had milled for gunstock wood, the tree had been struck by lightning. It sliced up into the prettiest slabs, I thought I was in gunstock heaven until I wet my pile of slabs and noticed the water was seeping through the slabs through tiny hairline cracks. The lightening strike was like a bomb going off in the wood. I ended up with a huge pile of carefully milled firewood.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/ekrewson/sawing%20wood/firstcut.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ekrewson/media/sawing%20wood/firstcut.jpg.html)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/ekrewson/sawing%20wood/loaded.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/ekrewson/media/sawing%20wood/loaded.jpg.html)
On checking on the other flintlock sites I found that others had learned the hard way about trying to save lightning struck trees, they found the same hairline cracks as I did.
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That amount of raw energy blasting thru the tree turns water into steam and virtually detonates. Maybe you will get lucky?
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It looks like it was hit then grew another 15 20 years. Well see when I split it into staves