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sassafras tree help?
mcginnis6010:
Sounds like sassafras is a tree with 101 uses LOL.
Sparrow:
Dry the young leaves and then grind them to a powder,you have file (Fee Lay) for the gumbo ! ' Frank
Lone500:
from my experience its just hard to find a good strait grained peice of sassafras. and what ive played with was pretty brittle too.
Lee Slikkers:
--- Quote from: Lone500 on March 05, 2012, 06:26:20 pm ---from my experience its just hard to find a good strait grained peice of sassafras. and what ive played with was pretty brittle too.
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When I first found PA I thought any wood could make a bow (and I suppose it could but...) and I cut, dried and tried a few staves of Sass, brittle, ring porous and not hardly worth the effort imho, some folk's mileage may vary.
Pat B:
Sassafras was one of Mourice Thompson's(of The Wichery of Archery) favorite bowwoods. I made a few way back when(I didn't know anything about building wood bows). I also cut a 12" sas tree that was stovepipe straight and got three 7' logs out of it. When I split it my bow staves turned into twisted fence rails. Made a pretty fence!
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