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2022 Bow Trade - complete
superdav95:
--- Quote from: Swampman on March 13, 2022, 11:16:24 am ---I roughed out an iron wood stave this morning. It is a real nice piece of wood so hopefully I can do it justice.
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That is very nice and straight for iron wood! How big was the tree you took this stave from???
Swampman:
--- Quote from: superdav95 on March 14, 2022, 06:30:14 pm ---
--- Quote from: Swampman on March 13, 2022, 11:16:24 am ---I roughed out an iron wood stave this morning. It is a real nice piece of wood so hopefully I can do it justice.
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That is very nice and straight for iron wood! How big was the tree you took this stave from???
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If I recall that stave came from about and 8 inch tree that grew in a valley below a bunch of taller trees. I made one other bow from this tree that turned out pretty nicely. Hopefully this one will turn out too. I do recall cursing a bit while splitting that tree into staves.
superdav95:
That’s a good size for iron wood. At least for around my neck of the woods. Most of the trees I find are smaller diameter and a chore to find straight (ish) grain
Mafort:
Working this squirrelly vine maple stave into shape.
superdav95:
Selected a nice clean seasoned hickory stave and roughed it out. So far so good! It’s 64” ttt.
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