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jamie:
dick if you can get your hands on black locust it works just as well.
i soak minein a stream checking it every now and then. usually a couple weeks and the sheets start to peal.

DBernier:
Jamie, I am new to this bark thing. I can get some black locust. Lets say a 3 or 4 inch dia tree. How about 8 feet long. Do I strip off the outer bark and soak the tree or soak the bark.   ???  Sounds stupid but I never did it before. Cortage yes from some ferns or something Vinson showed me.

Dick

jamie:
the bark will need to peal . you want all the bark inner and out. though you will only use the inner. ive heard, but never tried, soaking the whole tree and it will allow the bark to come off the tree .

Pat B:
Dick, Are you thinking about the inner bark lacing for your birch bark canoe  ? ;)  Won't be long now before its too late this year to collect bark.   
Jamie, Once the inner bark is harvested I guess you can just dry the unused pieces and re-hydrate when you need them?   I need to collect lacing for a birch bark quiver. Marc gave me the birch bark...years ago! ::)   Pat

DanaM:
I believe if you soaked even a winter cut log long enuf the bark would peel rigt off. I remember
the veneer plant that I grew up by had about 10 soaking ponds for their logs, this made the bark slip
right off.

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