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Offline Ryano

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Ever seen osage with ?
« on: February 19, 2009, 11:27:45 pm »
You ever seen osage with no sap wood ? I met a fellow the other day that wants to build a osage bow bad. He brought me three staves from a tree he cut here locally in pa. (Osage around here is rare) One half of the tree apears to be semi normal with around 3/8" or so sapwood however the staves from the other half of the tree have absoloutley no sap wood on them. I'm talking remove the bark and you got a yellow heart wood ring.....How weird is that?
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Ever seen osage with ?
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2009, 12:56:59 am »
Is that side of the tree dead? Is there a cambium under the bark?  ??? ??? ???
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Re: Ever seen osage with ?
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2009, 07:13:22 am »
Never seen that unless it was old and dead and all the sap wood was rotted off.  :)
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Re: Ever seen osage with ?
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2009, 09:46:03 am »
I recently cut a standing ash tree, and after splitting, I realized it had no sapwood. Because I cut it in early winter, I couldn't tell for sure if it was alive or not. Obviously, it must have been standing dead, which is probably the case with the osage.
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Re: Ever seen osage with ?
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2009, 03:40:28 pm »
Well it was cut and split last summer and kept in a heated garage so it is pretty dry. Like I said one half of the tree appears to have 3/8" or so sapwood. The other half nothing? just bark and heart wood. My question is do think its safe to just chase first ring or shoud we take it down a ways?
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« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2009, 03:49:55 pm »
I guess you'll have to decide that by examining the wood. Hard to tell from here! ;D
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Re: Ever seen osage with ?
« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2009, 04:25:15 pm »
dude where did you find an osage tree i Pa.
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« Reply #7 on: February 20, 2009, 04:26:51 pm »
Maybe the tree was damaged on the no sapwood side? Or wind stressed?
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Re: Ever seen osage with ?
« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2009, 04:34:52 pm »
Never saw that before.
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Re: Ever seen osage with ?
« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2009, 05:19:41 pm »
I don't know guys.... ???
Mitch, I cut all my osage in pa but not around here....its rare as all heck up here. Down in the south western corner of the state there's some area's that have quite a bit of it. Thats all I can tell you, I won't give away my secret cutting area's.... >:D
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Offline Timo

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Re: Ever seen osage with ?
« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2009, 06:32:40 pm »
Ryan, I had a tree such as you speak of. It was just for a short ways down the stave,maybe 12".The bark looked normal but that was all.Upon taken it down the sapwood kinda feathered out, in that area. I figured that it was some kind of damage and I cut it before it completely healed/scarred over?
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Re: Ever seen osage with ?
« Reply #11 on: February 20, 2009, 08:08:41 pm »
an old buck rub? :o
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Re: Ever seen osage with ?
« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2009, 08:12:19 pm »
Be a cool name for a bow?
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Offline yazoo

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Re: Ever seen osage with ?
« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2009, 09:40:37 pm »
I work a lot of staves that will have a ring of half sapwood and half heartwood ,does the heartwood only side blend end with a sapwood ring on the other side of the tree?
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Re: Ever seen osage with ?
« Reply #14 on: February 20, 2009, 10:26:59 pm »
That sounds wierd Rhino ;D. Prolly good wood nonetheless - osage is better ya know ::) hehehehe..
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