Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: bushboy on September 08, 2013, 04:17:50 pm
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Anyone know what this is?it grows in southern manitoba,the second photo is another tree,it's bark is very grey its may i-/2" at the biggest,grows kinda side ways and is spindley with leaves and branches only at the very top.thx's.meant to say 1-1/2. At the biggest for the second pic,thx's
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Top photo is something in the viburnum (highbush cranberry) genus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viburnum_opulus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viburnum_opulus) Supposedly good arrow wood, but I wouldnt pick it for a bow personally. Second pic has a few things in it, and I'm not sure what any of them are! Maybe an alder in the foreground.
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Thanks,will get a better pic of the second one.alder as I know it has brown bark with horozontal lines on the bark.
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I think #2 is alder too. Makes sense where you are. A picture of the trunk would help. Again, I have made some nice arrows of alder but there is better bow wood than this
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Looks like mapleleaf viburnum and hazelnut to me...