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Pat B:
I've been wanting to try fruit tree pitch or other tree pitch but haven't. I'm sure most would make good varnish but I wonder whether they will make good glue.
 

sander:
Pat I will try it and post how I do.  First time for any pitch so I have no experience.
Looking forward to shooting my first bamboo and stone point arrow, up to now been Eastons.

TheWildCat:
   I am from Western Ky and Pines are not native to that area fer sure. Where they got their Pitch? I don't know, but they did have it. I found some Archaic points along the banks of the Tenn. River and they had Pitch all over em. These were quite old points with multiple basal fluting and the lobes of the base were highly ground. They also had a lot of serations very much like Kirk arrowheads. I was only about 8 miles from where the Tenn. dumps into the Mississippi river. Would have been easy to traveled to where some pines were native. I know a lot of travelin was goin on. I also found a crestent bannerstone, made from green porphery, which I believe was from the Carolina area, also a banded slate tube bannerstone. No banded slate source close to that area that I know of. I am sure goods traveled between different peoples.

Pat B:
When I lived in coastal SC a friend found an 8" obsidian blade coming out the bank along the Colleton River in Beaufort county in an area that is rich in artifacts. There is no natural rock in that area of SC much less obsidian...but lots of long leaf yellow pines!  ;D

gstoneberg:

--- Quote from: Saw Filer on October 28, 2010, 09:56:36 am ---Oh yea, we got maple and LOTS of ERC. The sap from it is very sticky but there's never much of it. I just figured since they didn't "leak" as much as pine that it wouldn't be enough.

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I cut a cedar branch for a stave a month ago or so and the other day I took a look at it.  There was a small glob of sap at every place I'd cut off a twig or branch.  It would be tedious, but if all those were collected and put together it might be enough to process and use for a point?  It is certainly sticky enough.  I'll bet it was used.

Maple sap has a much more important use as far as I'm concerned.  That used to be a hobby of mine when I lived in the north.  I miss it.  :(

George

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