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Title: Large strip of osage bark
Post by: sleek on August 06, 2016, 09:08:23 pm: Soooo this happened. What should I do with it?
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Title: Re: Large strip of osage bark
Post by: osage outlaw on August 06, 2016, 09:20:40 pm: Burn it. It might have borer eggs in it. That happens to staves I cut in the summer.
Title: Re: Large strip of osage bark
Post by: sleek on August 06, 2016, 09:25:05 pm: Well crap. I was thinking a quiver or something...
Title: Re: Large strip of osage bark
Post by: osage outlaw on August 06, 2016, 09:31:51 pm: Go for it. You might be able to make something cool from it. I just burn them when they pop loose like that.
Title: Re: Large strip of osage bark
Post by: hunterbob on August 06, 2016, 09:32:51 pm: I took and made some really nice picture frames out of the bark for my daughter.
Title: Re: Large strip of osage bark
Post by: mullet on August 07, 2016, 12:06:41 am: Yellow Tea?
Title: Re: Large strip of osage bark
Post by: sleek on August 07, 2016, 12:37:55 am: Quote from: mullet on August 07, 2016, 12:06:41 am
Yellow Tea?

Osage syrup anyone? Lol. Realistically, will it make a viable stain that darkens with age?
Title: Re: Large strip of osage bark
Post by: Zuma on August 08, 2016, 12:25:31 pm: I guess you could seal it in a plastic bag
with a bug bomb and take care of the bugs.
Zuma
Title: Re: Large strip of osage bark
Post by: sleek on August 08, 2016, 12:41:08 pm: Quote from: hunterbob on August 06, 2016, 09:32:51 pm
I took and made some really nice picture frames out of the bark for my daughter.

Patrick sent me this pics. I liked that. My wife said so too...
Title: Re: Large strip of osage bark
Post by: Spotted Dog on August 08, 2016, 02:38:54 pm: Heart wood and the orange papery cover on roots make a nice yellow dye. Never tried bark. Boil material
and throw in some 0000 steel wool that has been washed real good and you get a green.
Title: Re: Large strip of osage bark
Post by: E. Jensen on August 09, 2016, 11:11:15 am: Find a clear garbage bag and put it in the sun for a while, that'll cook any bugs.
Title: Re: Large strip of osage bark
Post by: Mounter on August 13, 2016, 09:43:41 am: I had a few strips like that waiting to be burned in the firepit.. It rained yesterday and I noticed the inner bark was loose. Stripped a bunch of it off for handle wraps or maybe even bow backing?
Title: Re: Large strip of osage bark
Post by: Chippintuff on August 13, 2016, 12:41:18 pm: Are the fibers in the inner bark strong?

WA
Title: Re: Large strip of osage bark
Post by: Mounter on August 13, 2016, 02:16:38 pm: I think as a backing, it might add a little strength but more as a decoration. It has some nice color streaks in it...
Title: Re: Large strip of osage bark
Post by: Pat B on August 13, 2016, 10:30:45 pm: Be sure it can take the bending under tension. It could damage a bow if it breaks while drawn.
You could use the inner bark as weavers in a basket quiver.
Title: Re: Large strip of osage bark
Post by: sleek on August 13, 2016, 11:49:35 pm: Quote from: Pat B on August 13, 2016, 10:30:45 pm
Be sure it can take the bending under tension. It could damage a bow if it breaks while drawn.
You could use the inner bark as weavers in a basket quiver.

Very important fact!
Title: Re: Large strip of osage bark
Post by: Mounter on August 14, 2016, 09:38:02 am: Thanks for the advise pat. Handle wrap was my main thought. Saw a couple of those recently that I liked.