Author Topic: Life is good (Read 5028824 times)

cowboy · « **Reply #1710 on:** June 10, 2008, 08:56:20 pm »

Boy, ya skip a day or two and miss a lot!! Where'd ya git all that cane Greg, hehe - aught to have enough arra's to go on the warpath now

. Man them knives turned out nice! I gotta try some of those osage handles, them are sharp lookin! Pup's are looking plump and tender - hope ya got enough of them ribeyes Pappy

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GregB · « **Reply #1711 on:** June 11, 2008, 09:13:24 am »

Hey Paul, I got the cane right in the middle of the Clarksville city limits.

There is a small river that runs through a section of town and has some farm land in the bottom. I had fished for strip bass in the river in the past and remembered this cane. Thought I'd check it out and see if it looked good. I'm not an expert, but it looks like some really good stuff, hardly any indentation next to the nodes...nice and round until it starts getting really small diameter. I've been drying it in the cab of my old truck going on three weeks. Cut what you saw to lengths of 32-1/2", and they were weighing anywhere from 300 to 600 grains. I've got them grouped by weight and plan to give them more drying time and then reweigh them. Sound like a plan?

Glad you liked the handles, hoped you would. Really wanted to do justice to yours and Jesse's points, although probably not all that authentic from a handle standpoint. I cut them out diagonally across grain and matched the pieces. I'll send you a couple of sets if you'd like...least I could do.

cowboy · « **Reply #1712 on:** June 11, 2008, 09:37:12 am »

That sounds like a plan to me Greg, on the cane. I'm not sure of the drying time, seems like a couple of months would be long enough. I guess their like wood - once they stop loosing weight you'd think their as dry as their gonna get. Those that I shot at the Classic had been cut for months I think before Hillbilly sent em to me, then I did all the straightening and stuff probably had em for a month or two before I made. I noticed the more I shot em and bounced em off trees, rocks, targets, whatnot - that they weren't as straight as before, not bad but just weren't quite as straight. Guess that actually says a lot for cane though, split a couple of 1" saplings with em and didn't hurt em

. The two that blew apart on me, I'm pretty sure was a design flaw on my part (matching up the foreshaft with the cane up front).
Appreciate the offer on osage slabs, but that stave you gave me was overkill already

. Besides I've already got a bunch ripped out

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D. Tiller · « **Reply #1713 on:** June 11, 2008, 12:58:09 pm »

Greg, any of that cane large enough to make blowguns from? That would be fun!

GregB · « **Reply #1714 on:** June 11, 2008, 01:59:07 pm »

David,
I never made a blow gun, but I was only getting the small cane for arrows. There is a lot of it the size of what Huck Finn would have used for catfishin' on the Mississippi.

david w. · « **Reply #1715 on:** June 11, 2008, 02:03:08 pm »

Quote from: D. Tiller on June 11, 2008, 12:58:09 pm

Greg, any of that cane large enough to make blowguns from? That would be fun!

I know where some really long bamboo is. Now youre giving me ideas and it when the neighborhood cat disapperars it your fault

D. Tiller · « **Reply #1716 on:** June 11, 2008, 05:27:30 pm »

No way pard! Its the one puffen on the end of the pipe who's fault it is.

Pappy · « **Reply #1717 on:** June 17, 2008, 05:33:10 am »

Got back from Cloverdale,had a great time with all the bunch and meet a lot of new folks,we shot
a lot and ate like kings,I walked off this morning with out my camera so it will be Wend. before I get the pictures up,man I got some good ones.Check back in in the morning and I will show you how life can be good anywhere.

Pappy

Pappy · « **Reply #1718 on:** June 18, 2008, 06:07:46 am »

The pups Wend. morning after the long drive up,they made it fine.Check out the camp,little
better than the Barbie tent I was in up at Ryan's.We had a great time ,friend,food and bows
what more could you ask for.