Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: DLH on April 06, 2014, 12:22:02 am
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Picked up some black locust today anywhere from 12-20in diameter. Has some fat late growth rings (from what I can tell anyways) have quite a bit to split and remove bark and sapwood. Looks straight for the most part but I'm sure I will find out when I get to split it. Only have this one picture for now may try to get some more up later. I could definitely tell I had a load behind the truck this was being sold by the pound to be chipped up I think this does it more justice or atleast gives it a chance. When removing the sapwood should I be careful around the pins knots or can I rip through the sapwood pins until I get to the heartwood?
(http://i1120.photobucket.com/albums/l491/dnl17694/6A207034-C800-4B7E-805E-65914170769D_zpso569rbnn.jpg) (http://s1120.photobucket.com/user/dnl17694/media/6A207034-C800-4B7E-805E-65914170769D_zpso569rbnn.jpg.html)
Thanks,
Daniel
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That's a nice haul buddy. I think you should be able to get one maybe two bows out of those! If you need some help with those, I could take one off your hands! I would love to try some black locust. Let me know if you want to get rid of any of those. Not sure about the pin knots I have never done that myself, I would like to know myself. Fixing to get a load of Osage soon. Patrick.
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Have fun peeling the bark! ;D >:D
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You have to be careful around the knots just like with most other bow woods. Be ready to seal the back as soon as you remove the bark and sapwood.
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A 'little'… "you're killing me Larry". I would soooo love to have little of dat!
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Nice haul Daniel! You have a thing for BL don't you ;D
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Nice haul Daniel! Yeah, it'll want to tear out around the bigger knots. Those staves I worked on last weekend still had the sapwood and were a bear to clean off. If you can, peel and seal now, it'll be worth it later.
Tracy
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Yeah I like it cause it's plentiful in my area the osage I have seen is either north or south of me or on government land which they frown upon if you cut it plus I didn't have any nice straight locust. It took me all day yesterday nothing went as planned my dad and I about slipped a gonad trying to get a oak log off the truck that came from my university at the mill. Tracy it looked like that sapwood was giving you a tough time last weekend I'll try and remove it soon but this will be a pretty long project.
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You'll slip the other gonad trying to remove all the sapwood a year from now ;D Peel them out here and there over the next month and you should have a real good stash built up when you're done 8)
Tracy
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Makes me sore just looking at it. Have fun on that project, it'll be worth it in the end though. Pretty good haul, hope you get a lot of good staves out of it.
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Nice haul!
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That's a nice haul buddy. I think you should be able to get one maybe two bows out of those! If you need some help with those, I could take one off your hands! I would love to try some black locust. Let me know if you want to get rid of any of those. Not sure about the pin knots I have never done that myself, I would like to know myself. Fixing to get a load of Osage soon. Patrick.
Lol I busted out laughing at the " one maybe two bows out of those!"
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That was the idea Joec123able, thought it was pretty funny myself!
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Boy ........I can just see Daniel with a sledge and some wedges in his hands :) .......... His a stave splitting machine. :)
Got your work cut out for ya there............... :)
DBar
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Holy heck Daniel, nice haul!
-Dan