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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Hey Hickory guys..
« on: April 15, 2013, 06:26:23 pm »
Are dark streaks in hickory staves anything to worry about?  They look like little streaks of decay to me.  I haven't ever worked hickory before, so I thought I would see what you guys that know the stuff had to say. 

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Offline VicNova

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Re: Hey Hickory guys..
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2013, 06:33:58 pm »
Nope nothing to worry about, I've made good bows with streaks like that.
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Offline Nashoba

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Re: Hey Hickory guys..
« Reply #2 on: April 15, 2013, 06:37:55 pm »
Looks like mineral stain to me buddy. I have seen it in some of my staves but I have never had problems with it. What sort of area did you get the wood from?

Offline RBLusthaus

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Re: Hey Hickory guys..
« Reply #3 on: April 15, 2013, 06:51:44 pm »
That will look great under 10 coats of Tru oil!!!!!!!!

Russ

Offline k-hat

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Re: Hey Hickory guys..
« Reply #4 on: April 15, 2013, 06:57:35 pm »
Yup, beauty marks ;)

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Re: Hey Hickory guys..
« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2013, 07:20:35 pm »
BURN IT!!!!!!  >:D

Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Hey Hickory guys..
« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2013, 08:14:17 pm »
 
 
That will look great under 10 coats of Tru oil!!!!!!!!

Russ

That aint no crap Russ....ol' Carson the west coaster will be begging us for more of our firewood when he gets done sealing her.
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Hey Hickory guys..
« Reply #7 on: April 15, 2013, 09:33:02 pm »
Thanks for the peace/piece of mind gentlemen  ;) 
"The bow is the old first lyre,
the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso

Offline Pappy

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Re: Hey Hickory guys..
« Reply #8 on: April 17, 2013, 07:57:33 am »
If it is solid it will be fine.  :)
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Offline osagejack

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Re: Hey Hickory guys..
« Reply #9 on: April 17, 2013, 10:39:40 am »
I see lots of hickory here in tn like that ,,I think mineral streaks,, take more that that to stop hickory ;)