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Offline coaster500

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Re: Scotch Broom
« Reply #15 on: February 12, 2013, 11:05:08 am »
Send me one of those and we'll have a broom buildin contest :)

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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Scotch Broom
« Reply #16 on: February 12, 2013, 12:35:56 pm »
Keith, I would say that those look good except for the one on the right. 
"The bow is the old first lyre,
the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso

Offline Maxspin

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Re: Scotch Broom
« Reply #17 on: February 12, 2013, 12:43:13 pm »
Thanks,
I’ll have to go back and look for some more. Need to get it now. I’m not going anywhere near that stuff when it is in bloom. :o

Keith

Offline randman

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Re: Scotch Broom
« Reply #18 on: February 12, 2013, 05:35:08 pm »
Those look pretty normal Maxspin. Even the one on the right (Most of that heartwood will be gone by the time you get that thin enough to bend). I always liken it to chocolate-vanilla swirl ice cream because that's what the belly will look like when you get it done. Little swirls here and there of chocolate colored heartwood traces. You'll have a mostly sap wood bow. I have yet to find one with actual rot in the center although a whole stave will start to rot fast if left out in the environment.
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