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A bit of a rant
blackhawk:
If i knew ya was starving for good wood i woulda brought some up to elm hall n gave ya some :-\
Sounds like bad wood to me....the one u had at marshall seemed to be designed and bending good enough for it not to fret...gotta be majority woods fault imo. Maybe u mis identified cjtting it and its a soft maple? ???
Onebowonder:
Sugar maple is mighty good wood for the smoker! 8) 8) 8)
OneBow
PEARL DRUMS:
My thoughts as well bad Chris.
nakedfeet:
--- Quote from: mullet on August 16, 2015, 02:50:45 pm ---I'd use it on back-strap steaks.
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This might be the best idea yet!
--- Quote from: Badger on August 16, 2015, 04:00:54 pm --- Sugar maple will fret, it needs to be worked a little more carefully than osage or hickory. If you had frets all over the limb I would say trash it. Because the frets seem to be isolated I would say it is tillering.
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It definitely is tillering, but I think even the most experienced bowyers would pull their hair out with this particular stack of wood. I simply can't believe this one fret. It makes no sense to me and I'm simply astounded that the wood is that unforgiving.
I'll follow up with a post with some pictures and expand on things a little. It's possible better eyes will see what I'm not seeing -- but I really don't think so.
--- Quote from: blackhawk on August 17, 2015, 11:27:47 am ---If i knew ya was starving for good wood i woulda brought some up to elm hall n gave ya some :-\
Sounds like bad wood to me....the one u had at marshall seemed to be designed and bending good enough for it not to fret...gotta be majority woods fault imo. Maybe u mis identified cjtting it and its a soft maple? ???
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I have a handful of good staves to pick from now, so I'm not totally lacking.
I don't think it's a misidentification issue. My tree ID is pretty good, and it'd be pretty hard to confuse sugar maple with much else. The closest things to it are Norway maple, which doesn't grow wild here anyways (but is planted widely as an ornamental); black maple, which is rare here (grows further south mostly), and I've only ever seen a few of. Both, to my knowledge, are still classified as "hard maple" though, and I can generally tell the difference just by the leaves. Sugar maple is the most abundant tree in Michigan, so most of the time it's a safe bet if it's a maple leaf anyways. The "softs," red and silver, are noticably different.
George Tsoukalas:
If you use wood that has been on the ground you take your chances.
Sometimes the leaves don't turn for a few days on a tree that is down.
As for frets, if they are all over the limb it is a design issue...too short, too narrow.
If frets are localized it is a tillering issue.
Jawge
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