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Offline huisme

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Can vine maple bark be left on?
« on: January 31, 2014, 04:42:55 am »
I like the golding effect I get when I can just slip the bark of the staves, but I'm wondering if I can leave the bark on some of my winter cut staves and leave it on the back.
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Offline Gordon

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Re: Can vine maple bark be left on?
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2014, 10:29:41 am »
My experience with vine maple is the bark starts separating from the wood during tillering.
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Re: Can vine maple bark be left on?
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2014, 03:12:04 pm »
Thank you Gordon. Guess I'll scrape it off and stain the back.
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Re: Can vine maple bark be left on?
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2014, 07:29:12 pm »
Gordon is right, I left some of the cambium on and it scared the crap out of me everytime I heard it crack.
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Re: Can vine maple bark be left on?
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2014, 11:48:28 pm »
I've never had the cambium crack on me, but it was always itty bitty spots. Do you think a sort of spotted pattern is less likely to crack than strips or patches?
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