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Offline Pat B

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Re: privet from tree to bow in 30 days
« Reply #15 on: March 29, 2015, 11:44:52 pm »
Cool bow, bubby. Privet is pretty widespread in the SE US so lots of good bow wood for the taking. Makes good arrows too.
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Re: privet from tree to bow in 30 days
« Reply #16 on: March 29, 2015, 11:47:03 pm »
Thanks pat and yeah its everywhere, and it grows straight too
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Offline Hamish

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Re: privet from tree to bow in 30 days
« Reply #17 on: March 30, 2015, 01:34:44 am »
Nice work, looks cool.
Like everyone has been saying privet can be found almost anywhere, and it grows pretty straight too. It reminds me of an area I went to, with about 2 useable osage and hundreds of pipe straight privet from 4" to 8" diameter.
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Offline IdahoMatt

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Re: privet from tree to bow in 30 days
« Reply #18 on: March 30, 2015, 01:37:56 am »
Cool lookin bow Bub :)
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Re: privet from tree to bow in 30 days
« Reply #19 on: March 30, 2015, 01:44:14 am »
Nice, love the simplicity
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Offline Aaron H

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Re: privet from tree to bow in 30 days
« Reply #20 on: March 30, 2015, 08:17:42 am »
Cool looking bow, I dig that primitive look
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Re: privet from tree to bow in 30 days
« Reply #21 on: March 30, 2015, 06:36:54 pm »
30 days . . . the express route!  Fine lookin' lil bow.  Congrats!
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Re: privet from tree to bow in 30 days
« Reply #22 on: March 30, 2015, 07:18:31 pm »
mike this was just an experiment to see how fast in this climate I could get a bow from a decent bow wood
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Offline Stixnstones

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Re: privet from tree to bow in 30 days
« Reply #23 on: March 31, 2015, 10:39:31 am »
Very cool, so that makes a pretty decent bow when seasoned? What does the bark look like?
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Offline Sidmand

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Re: privet from tree to bow in 30 days
« Reply #24 on: March 31, 2015, 10:52:01 am »
thats great.  I tried privet myself, and came out with a decent bow.  Then, I tried to get creative with it and tried to heat in some hooks with dry heat, that didn't work at all, had to shorten it down and then had to do some more tillering and broke the dang thing.  BUT, I was surprised by the wood, it seemed to be a lot heavier than I had anticipated, it didn't take much set at all even with a very quick and fast tillering (I was experimenting and not worrying to much about stuff).

It grows as a weed around me; you can't go anywhere without seeing vast patches of privet.  Plenty of wood to experiment on.  Bark is thin gray and mostly smooth, smells a bit like watermelon when your peeling it (to me anyway).  The smell of the wood when your dry heating it is fairly offensive, I didn't care for it at all.  Here is the wikipedia page for privet:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligustrum_sinense

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Re: privet from tree to bow in 30 days
« Reply #25 on: March 31, 2015, 11:25:01 am »
Sidman i used steam to bend in the hooms on this and it bent pretty good, like you said a good hard wood that is ivory white so I'd stain it myself
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Re: privet from tree to bow in 30 days
« Reply #26 on: March 31, 2015, 01:57:37 pm »
The privet that grows in my country is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligustrum_lucidum . It's bigger and it is not a shrub but a small tree. It sometimes grows pipe straight. Do you think think this privet would make a bow?

BTW: Great bow!!!
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Re: privet from tree to bow in 30 days
« Reply #27 on: March 31, 2015, 02:54:02 pm »
Turmoiler if you look at the fd pic the stuff directly behing me is privet, some of it in there is 6-8 in diameter i think it's the same as you have so yeah it should make a bow
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Offline Knoll

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Re: privet from tree to bow in 30 days
« Reply #28 on: March 31, 2015, 07:36:19 pm »
Have the privet arrows to go with it?   ::)
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Re: privet from tree to bow in 30 days
« Reply #29 on: March 31, 2015, 07:44:55 pm »
Nope
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