Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: mullet on December 08, 2014, 08:52:20 pm
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Can you leave the sapwood on Walnut and how wide would you go out of the Fades? The sapwood sure does look nice against that dark wood.
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Yes....2-2.5........belly FLAT ;)....I know its quite a difference in width but I have been successful in that range ???
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2.5?
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" ;)
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Sapwood/heartwood black walnut bow? That's has some aesthetic appeal.
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I made a birch backed black walnut 2" at the fades, I realize its not a selfbow but it took.next to no set
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i have a piece of half heart wood half sapwood BW that i was able to split off a full size heart wood belly split.
i really to make it yew flat bow style, with 1/4" of sapwood. sure is some pretty wood
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Much easier to leave the sap on Eddie, it is almost impossible to chase a heart wood ring on Walnut, plus it looks nice if you are lucky enough to have any heart wood left when it is finished. :) I would say 2 inches at the fad will do most anything you want it to, I would leave it a little long for your Monkey arms. ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D
Pappy
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I was wondering if you cut that walnut tree yourself? Forgive me if I did something wrong. This is my 1st post.
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I generally make em 2" wide or better. If that is the stave I sent you, I already chased a few sapwood rings off so you could have that nice contrast. Although, if I remember right, you might have to do a little scraping to remove a few small remnants of the ring above the current back ring. I was in a bit of a hurry to get it shipped to ya and didn't do a thorough job. . Josh
On a side note, the main trunk of that tree was part of a shipment that went to Henry to make rifle stocks. I always thought that was a cool bit of history on my walnut. Some of it made gunstocks and the leftovers made bows.
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So, from what I gather, you treat it like you do hickory? Basically, just take the bark off?
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Thanks, guys. Doc, yea, it's the one you sent me. It's getting time to start working on it. It is such a nice piece of wood I didn't want to mess it up. Never worked Walnut before.
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So, from what I gather, you treat it like you do hickory? Basically, just take the bark off?
Like any white wood. But it is much softer than hickory. Wide with a low crown. I haven't had luck with walnut from 4" trunks. This is one where a bigger tree is better.
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The sap wood works fine and good luck trying to chase a ring on walnut anyway ...