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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: CodyCoyote on August 30, 2009, 03:19:06 pm

Title: What kind of wood is this?
Post by: CodyCoyote on August 30, 2009, 03:19:06 pm

I found this today and i thought it would make a good arrow, will it? I dont know what it is.


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Title: Re: What kind of wood is this?
Post by: Pat B on August 30, 2009, 04:22:38 pm

Looks kinda like witch hazel. Should make a good arrow. I've not tried it yet but have cut shoots to try.

Title: Re: What kind of wood is this?
Post by: billy on August 30, 2009, 06:07:45 pm

Hey Cody,

First off, where do u live?  That kinda looks like hazel, although we have something that looks similar to it, though I think it is some type of alder.  The alder/hazel look alike stuff is commonly found on the edges of ponds and streams around my home in north Georgia.  I've never tried it for arrows, as the stuff around here doesn't grow straight enough and tends to have lots of kinks.  But dry it and do your best to straighten it, and give it a shot.  If it shoots straight and flies well, it will make an arrow regardless of what type of wood it is. 

Title: Re: What kind of wood is this?
Post by: Pat B on August 30, 2009, 06:18:57 pm

If it is the alder Billy is talking about(tag alder) the cambium will turn a reddish brown once the air hits it.

Title: Re: What kind of wood is this?
Post by: D. Tiller on August 30, 2009, 06:47:06 pm

Nah! Not Alder. The leaves should be more rounded.

Title: Re: What kind of wood is this?
Post by: El Destructo on August 30, 2009, 06:52:31 pm

Could be tag Alder David....Tag and Seaside Alder leaves aren't round like Green Alder and alot of the other Alders are

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Title: Re: What kind of wood is this?
Post by: D. Tiller on August 30, 2009, 06:56:37 pm

Makes sense! The first one is the type we have around her. Red?

Title: Re: What kind of wood is this?
Post by: CodyCoyote on August 30, 2009, 10:50:13 pm

im in virginia i took the bark off and cleaned it up and did a little straighting but I will let it dry, it was beside a creek next to some birch.

Title: Re: What kind of wood is this?
Post by: El Destructo on August 30, 2009, 10:58:36 pm

I'd put Money on it being Alder

Title: Re: What kind of wood is this?
Post by: CodyCoyote on August 30, 2009, 11:17:45 pm

oh and the leaves are quite large imagine a bic lighter and a half

Title: Re: What kind of wood is this?
Post by: Pat B on August 31, 2009, 12:27:56 am

Looking closer at the leaves I see it isn't a witchhazel. Where the leaf is attached to the petiole(leaf stem) on witchhazel one side is longer than the other(oblique). Tag alder has both sides even(acute) and coming down to the petiole and not turning back towards the leaf(cordate) like a heart.

Title: Re: What kind of wood is this?
Post by: DanaM on August 31, 2009, 12:58:17 pm

Tag Alder

Title: Re: What kind of wood is this?
Post by: Hillbilly on August 31, 2009, 04:20:29 pm

That looks more like hazelnut to me. Hazelnut makes good arrows, I've used it quite a bit. See if you can find some fruits on it. Hazelnut will have nuts inside a green husk, alder has little pine-cone looking fruits. I'm pretty sure that's hazel, though, either Corylus americana or Corylus cornuta.

Title: Re: What kind of wood is this?
Post by: akila on September 02, 2009, 05:43:06 am

Hazelnut....no doubt..

Title: Re: What kind of wood is this?
Post by: youngbowyer33 on September 20, 2009, 01:33:10 pm

hazelnut or tag alder?

Title: Re: What kind of wood is this?
Post by: Pat B on September 20, 2009, 02:29:20 pm

Hazlenut!

Title: Re: What kind of wood is this?
Post by: Herm from Bavaria on September 20, 2009, 03:50:01 pm

i´ll throw in a new one:

linden??

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Title: Re: What kind of wood is this?
Post by: Hillbilly on September 21, 2009, 02:49:55 pm

Yeah, that's some species of Tilia. Here we would call it basswood or linn, in England they would call it lime.