Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: sonny on July 10, 2007, 06:11:07 pm
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so I'm riding along a local highway last night when I look over in the bed of this F-250 only to see bed-length osage logs stacked to near tailgate high....the only one I could see well enough was nasty, knotty looking as I tried to get the guy's attention to no avail as my exit came up too quickly.
I hate to think he's gonna burn it this winter....or maybe he builds bows too.......
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I know the feeling! Recently I was walking through a local university campus and saw a pile of logs. Amongst them were some perfect yew logs... cut into 1 foot lengths :'(
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It's one thing to have them turn you down when you ask for a peice or two, it's another to not know what would have happened had you got thte chance too :-\!
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I had a guy to follow me home one time.
He wanted to know what that "Bright Yeller Stuff Was"?
I told him it was Osage and that I made bows from it.
He looked at me a bit funny and replied "You mean Headge? You do What with it? How in tarnation do ye carve it. Dat stuff hard?"
He looked the load over and asked if he could buy one to make a corner post from.
I said no. And he left still perplexed.
David
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Hmm, sounds like sacrilaget o sell some good Osage for a fence post... especially when they didn't know what the "yeller stuff" was in the first place ;).
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Amazing !!!! aint it? I made a bow for a friend of mine and took it into work to give him, and when people saw it they did not know what osage was. they wanted to know how I stained it that color.
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I was driving through Portland last summer and the city was felling a whole row of mature Black Locust trees. Didn't have time to stop. :P
J. D. Duff
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An arborist friend told me how he pulled over a 1km row of 100year old osage. it was bulldozed into piles and burnt! ???
That old shelter belt probably represented over three quarters of all the osage in New zealand :'(