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Best time to chase rings in osage and black locust

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PEARL DRUMS:
I peel mine when Im ready to use it. I seal all the ends right away. Ive had green bark come off hard and Ive had seasoned bark come off hard. Not much consistency in that game. Some will check and some wont, bark-on or not. If you can get plenty cut, keep cutting!

IndianGuy:
"Forget it for 2 years!"..Totally disagree and I have made literally hundreds of osage orange bows. I cut them quarter them and seal the ends with paint.
Usually if split into descent size quarters the wood shoud be ready for bowmaking in 6-8 months, you can reduce the green stave to about a 3\4 finished bow and in about one month if kept say in your house will be dry enough to finish out. Truthfully after you make a few osage bows you will be able to tell very easily if the wood is dry enough or not but two years is not nesscary.


"a quart bottle of carpenters wood blue, an 8 ft long tub of molten beeswax".... I actually laughed out loud at this!!! good one JW  :laugh:


Eric

BowEd:
rapaport......starting with a 7 to 8 inch thick log should give you plenty of depth to find a thicker ring.Even quartered.I don't have the log in front of me here though.You'll get er done.

Thesquirrelslinger:
The BL i cut has nice, 1/2 inch thick growth rings. Not kidding. It is for making arrows. The stuff i (try) to make bows from has growth rings about 3/8th inch.

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