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Bows / Re: Woods superior to osage
« Last post by Badger on June 24, 2025, 01:06:40 pm »
Quote from: bassman211 on June 23, 2025, 11:39:42 pm
Elm is the best white wood for me for making bows. American elm is what I have at hand, so it is what I use. If Chinese elm is superior it would have to be one hell of  a bow wood.

 Hackberry is one of my favorites also. It is the most steam bendable of all American woods and surely one of the most bendable woods n the world. You can make some very radical designs with relative ease using hackberry. If I ever got another shot at it I would take more time keeping the moisture down. It is kind of hydroscopic.
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Bows / Re: Woods superior to osage
« Last post by Eric Krewson on June 24, 2025, 09:43:07 am »
For us that live in abundant osage country it is hard to try something else when you have a few hundred seasoned osage staves
ready to go.

I have only made a few hickory bows, one red cedar, and reworked a handful of other people's hickory backed red oak board bows. I have 4 acres of woods with various species of hickory, hackberry, elm, black cherry, red and white oak and hop hornbeam but have never cut the first stave from any of these wood types on my land to try to make a bow out of. I have cut a lot of hickory off a friend's place to split into staves for my bow students.

I don't have any osage on my land but could easily get permission to cut it off local land that was about to be cleared for development.
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Primitive Skills / Re: Life is good
« Last post by Pappy on June 24, 2025, 09:15:52 am »
Ya we get a lot of this kind of weather this time of year, going to be in the high 90's all week. I am excited about the hay deal, as I said the money isn't nearly as good but I think I will like the looks of the place much better plus he will be able to use some parts that the row crop guys couldn't so less bush hogging and cleaning up for me, that's always good. :) Brownie points are a good thing for sure. :) :) :) :) :)
 Pappy
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Around the Campfire / Re: Life on the Farm
« Last post by Pappy on June 24, 2025, 09:10:29 am »
That rig is looking good, I always love putting stuff back together also, tearing down not so much.  :)
 PAPPY
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Announcements / Re: Looking for PrimitivearcherTV content and creators
« Last post by GlisGlis on June 24, 2025, 05:41:24 am »
I personally would watch a video of 30 min or longer but I know for sure many (younger) wont
I'd leave many shorter video and i'd use youtube feature to create lists (compilations) to group videos of the same subject.
I will do a test to see the quality of what I can produce
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Bows / Re: Woods superior to osage
« Last post by bassman211 on June 23, 2025, 11:39:42 pm »
Elm is the best white wood for me for making bows. American elm is what I have at hand, so it is what I use. If Chinese elm is superior it would have to be one hell of  a bow wood.
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Bows / Re: 2025 Junior Bow Trade
« Last post by Mafort on June 23, 2025, 09:30:46 pm »
summer has been messing me up! double ear infection that lead to my popping the tympanic membrane in both ears due to pressure. paramedic school has me on lock pretting much from wake up to knock out and mix that with the kentucky heat wave.
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Bows / Re: Ipe
« Last post by Hamish on June 23, 2025, 09:28:30 pm »
Bandsaw blades getting blunt. Yep, I remember doing that. A regular high carbon steel blade is no good for dense tropicals. You need a bi metal/high speed steel, or even a TCT saw blade if you have a large enough bandsaw.
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Bows / Re: 2025 Junior Bow Trade
« Last post by stuckinthemud on June 23, 2025, 07:40:04 pm »
It's been a treat watching Aaron and Paul posting progress updates but it's late June and it would be good for all the rest of us to check in please. I realise there's plenty of time to go but it'd be good to get a status report, even if it's something like, been really busy, haven't had chance to get much done....
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Around the Campfire / Re: Life on the Farm
« Last post by bjrogg on June 23, 2025, 06:04:30 pm »
The wheat is coming along. This rain and heat will make it mature quickly.

It’s definitely going to be crunch time for the truck and trailer.

Bjrogg
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