Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: mcginnis6010 on May 25, 2012, 09:38:14 am
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Never used black cherry before. I've sealed the ends with poly. Now just a waiting game for it to dry. Its about 7ft. long.
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Another pic
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Last pic
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Save the bark - it makes really nice decorative blood red wraps. A bit like birch bark.
Nice stave.
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My favourite wood to date. My last 4 bows have all been cherry.
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yea i was actually thinking of maybe using the bark on the bow when im finally able to work on it.And i was able to pick a bunch of black cherries from it as well. Think im gonna get the wife to make a pie out of them ;D
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Your wood isn't going to do much drying unless you split it.
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Cherry can get buggy. I would at least half it and spray it down.
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I'm jealous. We don't have any black cherry around here, so I've never had a stave to work with. I have made a couple backed cherry bows from lumber and they turned out pretty sweet. Plan to pick up another board or two when I get to a hardwood store.
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Cherry can get buggy. I would at least half it and spray it down.
thanks for the advice ill do that today when i have some time.
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well i didnt know that when you cut a cherry tree down that it will start bleeding all over the bark. i look at it yesterday and it was bleeding out at different spots and it looked like a blood red sap.