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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: sleek on May 30, 2017, 10:52:41 pm

Title: Grown limb splice
Post by: sleek on May 30, 2017, 10:52:41 pm

Say you spot an osage tree with two nice billet limbs. Could a person cut one limb, cut a fish tail splice, and graft it to the other billet limb you did not cut, and wait a couple month for them to grow together before cutting and making a bow? If that works, you could grow spliced on siyahs, and for that mater, organically grow any bow you wish, including some neat mix match frankin bows.

Title: Re: Grown limb splice
Post by: Hamish on May 31, 2017, 12:47:06 am

Sleek...are you smokin' crack again?

Title: Re: Grown limb splice
Post by: jaxenro on May 31, 2017, 05:42:34 am

I think it would be more than a couple of months but they do grafting like this with different types of Walnut to make gunstocks with, grafting on Claro Walnut to other types to help it grow. So I think it is theoretically possible but it might be a couple of years not months

Title: Re: Grown limb splice
Post by: PatM on May 31, 2017, 06:45:38 am

Grafts don't grow  together across the whole splice.

Title: Re: Grown limb splice
Post by: Pat B on May 31, 2017, 08:29:13 am

Only the cambium, the living portion of the tree(limb) grows together in a graft so when you remove the bark and cambium you'll still have to glue the splice together.