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BowEd:
Have you ever tried the grooving on the side and heated on these dogwoods yet.So they stay straight.I hav'nt.Some of mine stay straight and some don't.Can't really figure out why.Made them from older age and thicker to near dimensioned starting points too.I believe I got either the flowering or gray dogwood here but they do turn red in the winter too though.
iowabow:
--- Quote from: Beadman on January 24, 2016, 07:13:08 am ---Have you ever tried the grooving on the side and heated on these dogwoods yet.So they stay straight.I hav'nt.Some of mine stay straight and some don't.Can't really figure out why.Made them from older age and thicker to near dimensioned starting points too.I believe I got either the flowering or gray dogwood here but they do turn red in the winter too though.
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I think the bark on mine are gray. I have not tried the groove but I keep reworking them when I drink my coffee and they seem to be staying straighter longer each day. I used tung oil one one and it seem to be doing well. Yesterday I finished cutting in the nocks.
iowabow:
Yesterday I spent half the day watching Isaac wrestle (he pinned a kid in 24 sec). In the afternoon Paul and I went to the pond and pulled up a walnut tree log I left on the dam project a couple years ago. We were testing out the winch on the wheeler. Then we raced wheelers and cut cookies on the pond ice that was good fun.
iowabow:
Annette and I hiked out to the pond this morning . She hiked around and took photos and I tried my hand at that log Paul and I pulled from the pond dam. We decided to walk so I brought just one axe and the adze. It went easier than I thought to flatten one side considering it was my first time really doing this.
Pat B:
It's nice to have those one sided axes on the opposite side from your legs. ???
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