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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Scrub_buck on February 25, 2010, 10:00:36 pm

Title: Name that bow wood
Post by: Scrub_buck on February 25, 2010, 10:00:36 pm: I know this might be too easy for some, but I picked up a short log of an interesting species today from a friend of mine. In this part of AL, you rarely see them this big and pretty.

Who will be the first one to guess right?

I should have a good 10 inches of heartwood to work with.

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Post by: cowboy on February 25, 2010, 10:03:11 pm: I'll take a shot :). Prolly wrong but that looks like honey locust - around here anyway..
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Post by: Simple Hunter on February 25, 2010, 10:08:49 pm: Cowboy thats what I thought.
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Post by: sonny on February 25, 2010, 10:09:31 pm: black cherry ??
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Post by: youngbowyer33 on February 25, 2010, 10:27:51 pm: ya my guess is wild black cherry
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Post by: jthompson1995 on February 25, 2010, 10:41:31 pm: Another vote for Honey Locust.
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Post by: Timo on February 25, 2010, 10:48:59 pm: honey locust.
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Post by: Lombard on February 25, 2010, 11:01:05 pm: Is there a prize for correct answers, like maybe a stave? ;D
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Post by: Hickoryswitch on February 25, 2010, 11:23:24 pm: I'd say honey locust as well.
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Post by: jturner on February 25, 2010, 11:43:20 pm: I was thinkin honey locust but since everyone guessed that i'll go with my second guess, kentucky coffee bean
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Post by: Timo on February 25, 2010, 11:57:20 pm: Kinda thought it favored coffee tree but I ain't never seen one that big here before.
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Post by: cowboy on February 26, 2010, 12:00:37 am: If it does happen to be honey locust and I win, I'll take recognition for not being crazy as payment enough ;D. Never heard of coffee tree..
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Post by: jturner on February 26, 2010, 12:12:29 am: Cowboy, I'll take a pic of one tomarrow. kinda hard to tell, all of the coffe bean trees i have seen were upright and had branches.lol never cut one yet this post reminded me I have one to cut in my grannys yard, they are a pest and grow fast and spread
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Post by: rileyconcrete on February 26, 2010, 12:38:18 am: Not sure what that is but it looks goooood!! ;D ;D
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Post by: Pappy on February 26, 2010, 08:25:30 am: I would say Cherry,looks like to much heart wood for Honey locust,even tho the bark looks a lot
like it, if it had thorns. :)
Pappy
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Post by: jthompson1995 on February 26, 2010, 08:27:52 am: Quote from: Pappy on February 26, 2010, 08:25:30 am
I would say Cherry,looks like to much heart wood for Honey locust,even tho the bark looks a lot
like it, if it had thorns. :)
Pappy

Pappy, there are numerous cultivars of honey locust that don't have thorns that are use for landscape plantings. With this one being so straight and limb-free it looks like it may be one of this type.
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Post by: DanaM on February 26, 2010, 08:34:13 am: Don't look like black cherry to me bark is wrong and its pretty small for BC
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Post by: Scrub_buck on February 26, 2010, 11:26:38 am: It is indeed honey locust. I found this tree in a 40 acre block of timber I was helping a company cruise for a clearcut. I have never seen one so straight and Pappy ... it did have a few clusters of thorns on it .. but not on this super straight section. There were a few slmall clusters on the butt section that was too Knotty. I ended up giving that one to another forester friend of mine who makes benches out of logs of hardwood. He has a portable sawmill that he and his Dad process the logs with.

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Post by: Scrub_buck on February 26, 2010, 10:27:03 pm: This joker nearly killed me this evening. I finally did get it into quarters. It has some twist, but it should be several staves in it somewhere.
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Post by: VenomBOWslinger on February 26, 2010, 11:15:35 pm: Black cherry is correct!!! Does it have small spade shaped leaves that are serated? Look on ground around stump...
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Post by: xin on February 27, 2010, 01:26:51 pm: Honey locust should have been named"devil's thorn locust". Never saw any honey locust that did't have the most vicious looking and sharp thorns on the planet. I think indians used the thorns for the tips on blowgun darts.