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An elder blowgun/tube

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ekalavya:
I was walking around and found a stick from an elderberry bush (sambucchus nigra)
and took it home with me.
The tool i removed the inner soft pith is on the photo together with a possible projectile.
The tube is only an ellbow long ... so nothing serious but it was quite easy to work out.
(a toy , to mess around .... nothing more)

The bast is from loose bark i also found some day when walking around.
Wouldn't be the newspaper wrapping , the stick would have been broken already.

I used wallpaper paste, because the powder is quite easy mixed with water and an easy
almost instant glue, which serves the purpose.

YosemiteBen:
got to start somewhere I suppose. long as it works!

Zuma:
Humm I wonder about Sunflower or corn stalk?
A brocolli would make a short one lol
Zuma

ekalavya:
elder is quite good bow wood ... and especially the germans like it ....

always first fortify by wrapping and other means ....
as for sunflower and corn stalk i do not know ....

maybe the diameter would be too large , maybe you have to fill it first with wax ....
wood shavings from a slicer .... thin wood strips could also be used for the wrappings ....

there's not even a need for drilling as a blowgun / tube can be made by wrapping only ...
a large paper tube and the inner filled with wax but not completly and the outside is bast
, wood and other wrapping

two large sticks of the length of the tube could be used as stabilizers and the whole tube
made of smaller section put and wrapped together ...

Zuma:
LOL I thought it was a blowgun for senior citizens.
You mean Elder :laugh:
Zuma

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