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what wood to use
fishfinder401:
--- Quote from: jackcrafty on February 18, 2011, 03:29:23 pm ---If you live in New England, there is plenty of hickory around. I grew up in NH and there are public trails you can walk, cut a good sapling, and come home with a hickory, dogwood, or maple stave in less than an hour.
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what do they look like? also, what about ash, we have a property in the berkshire mountains with some good ash
JackCrafty:
Ash will work fine but it's not as strong as hickory, so you will need to cut a larger diameter tree. The back can't be too rounded with ash.
The Birkshires? You really need to go to the property and take pictures! There are probably lots of wood you can use for both arrows and bows. Post the pictures and we will do our best to tell you what you have.
As for what the trees look like, just do a google search for images of hickory trees and such. ;D
fishfinder401:
--- Quote from: jackcrafty on February 18, 2011, 06:07:06 pm ---Ash will work fine but it's not as strong as hickory, so you will need to cut a larger diameter tree. The back can't be too rounded with ash.
The Birkshires? You really need to go to the property and take pictures! There are probably lots of wood you can use for both arrows and bows. Post the pictures and we will do our best to tell you what you have.
As for what the trees look like, just do a google search for images of hickory trees and such. ;D
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ya the town is actually called ashfield, the ones i know of there are rock maple, ash, and black cherry, but now that you mention it there may be hickory, im going to goup at some point, do some trout fishing and get some trees, we have 86 ares so i have a large area to look ;D do you know what other types would be in the area, our property encompasses a swamp and mountain top if that helps
JackCrafty:
Hmmm...not sure what you might have. If it has been logged before, you probably have some oak. But there are a lot of possibilities. You may have mostly white pine and hemlock. Even so, 86 acres is a very good size property. I would be very exited if I were you!
fishfinder401:
i just remembered, we have an abundance of birch of lots of different types
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