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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Jodocus on March 10, 2015, 09:29:44 am

Title: Don't burn them!
Post by: Jodocus on March 10, 2015, 09:29:44 am

Really, everytime I hear the advice to burn a defunct bow or reports thereof, it's braking my heart.

I just love to cut them up (yummy nice straight-grained limbs) and make all sorts of stuff from it. It's always prime wood.

Boxes, spoons, pottery tools, many handles, figurines, atlatls, splitting wedges, arrow foreshafts, kids bows, a simple xylophone, garden stakes, I made them all from discarded bows.

Title: Re: Don't burn them!
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on March 10, 2015, 09:35:41 am

My last fire looked like a giant flaming porcupine. Bows and blanks sticking out all over!

Title: Re: Don't burn them!
Post by: Pappy on March 10, 2015, 09:37:01 am

Yes but Jodocus but man has to have fire also. :o >:D ;) ;D
   Pappy

Title: Re: Don't burn them!
Post by: wapiti1997 on March 10, 2015, 12:42:41 pm

Nothing burns like osage!

Title: Re: Don't burn them!
Post by: Jodocus on March 10, 2015, 12:43:28 pm

Quote from: PEARL DRUMS on March 10, 2015, 09:35:41 am

My last fire looked like a giant flaming porcupine. Bows and blanks sticking out all over!

Crack! Crackeldycrack. Can you hear my heart, evil Chris?  ;D

Burn beech, or hornbeam.