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Offline ionicmuffin

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Tree IDed~~(Pics of haul added)
« on: September 27, 2012, 02:35:53 pm »
I have here two sets of leaves from two different trees. I am unsure as to what they are. anybody have any ideas?
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Offline Guessed

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Re: Tree ID from leaves?
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2012, 02:43:22 pm »
Just look up trees that are in your area. For example, here in Canada there is no osage orange. If I were to look at the leaves of one of those trees I would have no clue what I was looking at.

Offline Holten101

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Re: Tree ID from leaves?
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2012, 04:18:50 pm »
The leaf to the right looks like Laburnum:
http://www.loenbaek.dk/planter/images/laburnum-alpinum-pendulum3.jpg

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Offline ionicmuffin

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Re: Tree ID from leaves?
« Reply #3 on: September 27, 2012, 04:52:34 pm »
dang you nailed the id! does anybody know if its good bow wood??? ill do some reaserch too but if you know just chip in please
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Re: Tree ID from leaves?
« Reply #4 on: September 27, 2012, 04:53:07 pm »
Proud Hillbilly from Arkansas.

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Re: Tree ID from leaves?
« Reply #5 on: September 27, 2012, 05:01:00 pm »
Here's a website I just found about ten minutes ago. It's got a good list of woods.

http://www.wood-database.com/wood-identification/

Here's Laburnum:
http://www.wood-database.com/lumber-identification/hardwoods/laburnum/
It is, indeed, a good bow wood.

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Offline ionicmuffin

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Re: Tree ID from leaves?
« Reply #6 on: September 27, 2012, 06:23:49 pm »
well that Laburnum is a dead tree now  >:D there a quite a few staves in the bunch of growth! some of them are small, but i can live with that.  as for the Variegated Euonymus, does anybody know if thats a good bow wood?
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Offline ionicmuffin

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Re: Tree ID from leaves?
« Reply #7 on: September 27, 2012, 08:06:36 pm »
started cutting wood, will collect some pear, plumb, maple, ect.
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Re: Tree ID from leaves?
« Reply #8 on: September 27, 2012, 11:10:29 pm »
Here's the haul from today, 9 pieces of wood and a potential for up to 11 bows! there are 4 pear, 2 laburnum, 2 not fully identified but the ones from the left on my first pic of this post. and one plum cherry.
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« Reply #9 on: September 27, 2012, 11:12:19 pm »
rest of the pics.
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Re: Tree IDed~~(Pics of haul added)
« Reply #10 on: September 28, 2012, 01:14:29 am »
Looks like a good haul! Make sure you seal the ends well. Then seal them again, later. I've had wood checking this summer despite having sealed the ends. Maybe it's the drought.

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Re: Tree IDed~~(Pics of haul added)
« Reply #11 on: September 28, 2012, 01:20:55 am »
Cool! Looks like we'll be seeing some new bows in a while  ;).
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Re: Tree IDed~~(Pics of haul added)
« Reply #12 on: September 28, 2012, 01:23:44 am »
Looks like ya got some tricky wood there.
Some one once told me 'if ya aint breaking, you aint building'.

Seal em up tight, especially the fruit trees.

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Re: Tree IDed~~(Pics of haul added)
« Reply #13 on: September 28, 2012, 01:28:28 am »
yep there all sealed up tight for now, think i should take the bark off though? i know there will be several character bows to make, which makes it all the more fun of a learning experience!
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Re: Tree IDed~~(Pics of haul added)
« Reply #14 on: September 28, 2012, 01:31:59 am »
Careful with the laburnum. All parts of the plant are poisonous.
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