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working with poplar bark
Catahoula:
Hey Pat,
I want to see the basket when you get her done...my cutie has made them from grape vines and such in the past...maybe you will have it finished by late July?
Rand
(got some Gurkas all the way from Thompsons yesterday and gonna bring you a couple)
Hillbilly:
Pat, for basketmaking, I don't try to seperate it, just peel young trees with thin bark, cut it into strips and let it dry, then re-soak it before using (keeps it from shrinking up like it does if you weave it green.) For berry buckets, peel older trees. For making cordage or tie material, you want just the inner bark. You can ret the inner bark loose, but as many poplars as there are in the woods around here, if you look around a bit, you'll find a fallen one that's naturally retted to the right stage where the inner bark seperates easily but isn't weak and rotten.
PS-Howdy David. Haven't been on there much lately. I was wondering how y'all fared through the tornado outbreaks.
Pat B:
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Steve, I think I'll look for a dead poplar like you and David suggested.
Rand, thought I'd see you at Hickory this year but you didn't make it. Looking forward to seeing you(and your Gurkas) at the camp-o-rama(July 22,23,24).
Catahoula:
Hi Pat,
I didn't head up to Hickory as I am PREJUDICED...yep, I admit it...a couple of years ago at Hickory (before I went to the Classic and started learning the error of my ways) and I asked you what you thought about a fiberglass bow I was looking at...you told me that it looked ok...kinda like a bow but that you were into primitive self bows and such and I might ask someone else who likes that kinda bow to check it out...well since I started trying to make self bows and have a couple to hunt with and arrows and have a few to hunt with I just really didn't have it in me to go to a mixed event like Hickory(so there it is...prejudice!). And...
speaking of bows I have a couple of self bows I am messing with I hope to bring up for your advice and maybe if I can talk you into it some limb bending...
See you soon...can't wait to see your basketry and such,
Rand
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