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Mesophilic:
I saw a good tutorial that spoke my language and watched one of Gill's Hunt Primative vids that was also inspiring.

So I took the dog out and harvested 4 good wild rose shoots.  They're about 4 feet long right now.  My previous attempts have not ended well.  Wood dries too fast in my enviornment and my first attempt ended with about 90% splitting too far to be usable. 

My last attempt was with Apache plume, I got them all dry but I don't think I worked them enough when they were still green.  Heat straightening didn't work so well,  and they didn't stay straight.

Going ro leave the bark on for another week or two, then after I strip it off I'll oil or use shellac to slow down the drying and see how it goes.  I also sealed the ends with white wood glue right after cutting and stripping the thorns.

Got them pretty straight so far by working a few times a day for about a week now.  If this works out I know some areas where I can get more wild rose shoots.

WhistlingBadger:
So far, so good!  I recommend removing the thorns before you try to shoot them, though.

Mesophilic:

--- Quote from: WhistlingBadger on November 04, 2019, 09:11:00 pm ---So far, so good!  I recommend removing the thorns before you try to shoot them, though.

--- End quote ---

I live on the wild side >:D

Hawkdancer:
Like maybe armored gloves? >:D (lol). Not familiar with wild rose, but the red osier will dry cure in a a couple months, faster with he bark off.  Seems to take heat pretty well, too
Hawkdancer

Mesophilic:
Am I the only one who shoots with steel gauntlets?  Geez, I thought everyone did that  :D

I've been on the lookout for red osier.  A map of growing locations look like it should be around or near me but so far I haven't turned up any.  It'd be nice if the map I saw was good enough resolution to get a better idea, but it just isn't happening.

The two shaft materials I've seen in museum pieces from the area are Apache plume and wax currant.  So maybe it isn't in the area after all.

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