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BowEd:
I assume you mean during sinewing?No I don't.That's not a concern.The bend is not that abrupt.Even on parallel width limbs.
Some designs or width and taper dimensions do end up with 1 ring on the belly though.Depending on how wide the limbs start out and degree of width taper from the fades.

superdav95:
That’s a great haul Ed!   Here a couple pics of the bark on my elm.  I may be wrong but looks like white elm maybe.  What you guys think.  It’s is very heavy and was about as hard to cut as my hhb. 

Buckskinner:
That is some nice looking elm!  All we have around here to my knowledge is what we call piss elm (which I believe is Chinese elm) and a few remaining Dutch elm that got around the disease.  I look hard for elm trees but for morels not staves.   Good thing we have lots of hickory though.

BowEd:
I believe or trust in your evaluation of your elm there with you having worked the other woods locally also.That's definitely an elm leaf.
That ought to be some top notch stuff.You've got a treasure house around you up there I'd say.I do have osage,black locust,and hickory here.Feel forunate for that.I feel my larder is full for a while now.
Ai'nt it a breeze the way the bark comes off?Sure saves a lot of time and labor.I did drawknife a couple of the sapling staves after splitting them resawing.I have plans for some of that innerbark flemish twisted into a cord for a wrap handle.

I see many elm here and many that are dead.I keep an eye out too for mushrooms around and on those dead ones.I believe those are mostly red,with the occasional american and chinese.Some grow huge here before succumbing to the disease.I cut em up and throw them into the stove.

Being retired now I've got other priorities to fullfill now.The garden/winterwood/brain tanning to name a few.I like to keep the farming land free of volunteer trees and weeds.Do a little fishing too.As Pappy would say....Life is good.

Buckskinner:
I will say one thing about the elm around here whatever it is, it is a mother to split!  I took a wedge to the forehead once splitting elm, bounced right back at me.  I decided right there, done burning this stuff, plenty of oak and such around here.

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