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Ocean Spray sapling build allong
Gus:
Yes Sir!!!
Excellent Thread!!!
Love your treatment of Heat Treatment! :)
-gus
Elktracker:
:D Thanks Gus its kinda a hoaky setup but it works! I was really supprised how well the Oceanspray responded to heat treating! I have been experamenting with recurving it with dry heat and you can get it warm and watch the wood just start going! but then it gets to a cirtian point and just comes appart with no weights or pressure into the bend just the weight of the bow. I am going to talk with John Strunk and see what his experiance if any is with recurving ocean spray. I was also impressed I have made about 5 of these oceanspray bows 2 being kids bows and it takes very little set!! even when you push it to its limits, it is fast becoming my favorite bow wood!! Thanks again for the reply and for looking!
Josh
Gus:
Yes Sir!
Great information all.
Will be looking forward to your findings.
And please keep me in mind if you get to the point where you might want to do a little trading... :)
-gus
randman:
I've been playing with ocean spray a lot lately and I really like the stuff. Amazingly tough and dense. I've been using cutoffs of it for tip overlays it's so hard.
I have a lot of seasoning stuff and didn't have anything bow ready so I decided to try one of the standing dead dried in place branches you always find in a dense old ocean spray bush. Check splits all through it. Wanted to see what it could do so I split it up following the natural split lines and ended up with 3 wicked little shorties (1 is 24"). Haven't had a chance to take them out and shoot them in yet but I did drag home a few more of those dead ready to work staves.
It seems to respond real well to heat treating but the one thing I have not been successful at is heat bending it with dry. Doesn't seem to like to make tighter
bends too much. I have not tried steaming though, May be the ticket.
I also try to leave the bark on because it has that great dark leather look to it when you wax it. Sometimes it even looks like some sort of skin with little cracks and hair follicles. I've even left some moss and lichens on it. Great camo!
bubby:
Josh, b-a-l , build-a-long, just to lazy to spell it out ::), Bub
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