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Around the Campfire / Re: Life on the Farm
« Last post by GlisGlis on Today at 05:28:57 am »
Birch bark canoe is an awesome project! Wanna see that !
I bet you'll need alot of spruce roots and tar to seal all the holes and sewings!
I also imagine that it will be very difficult to find the right balance between strength and lightness

here is an interesting page on building birchbark canoes (you may already know it).
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Around the Campfire / Re: Life on the Farm
« Last post by chamookman on Today at 04:41:34 am »
Way Cool ! That's a project that I've always wanted to do, but guess will never get at. Love Canoeing, have a 12' Sports Pal Solo.  (=) Bob.
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Bows / Re: Cutting and sealing hickory
« Last post by willie on May 28, 2024, 07:43:00 pm »
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and down the side for 3 or 4 inches.
Piddler

+1 for the white woods here  (birch)
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Around the Campfire / Re: Life on the Farm
« Last post by bjrogg on May 28, 2024, 03:47:04 pm »
Had a nice Memorial Day weekend.

Was missing the crew from Primitive Archery meet at Marshall, but spent it with family and friends.

Have had lots of rainy days lately and I felt like I needed to start a new project.

I just really got the bug to make a birch bark canoe.

I think I can gather everything from my farm

I started by gathering roots from spruce trees I planted in 1984. I spent a couple lunch breaks. Probably going to need a few more, but here’s the start of my canoe.

Bjrogg
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Bows / Re: Cutting and sealing hickory
« Last post by bentstick54 on May 28, 2024, 10:25:01 am »
Thanks everyone. That’s what I figured but was wondering about to much moisture on the surface for a sealer to stick and dry. I never would have thought to take a rag to wipe off excessive moisture on the surface before applying sealer like Pappy suggested.
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Bows / Re: Cutting and sealing hickory
« Last post by Pappy on May 28, 2024, 09:32:03 am »
I always seal the backs and ends of spring or early summer cut hickory, wipe them down good to get as much of the moisture off , also try and keep the out of the sun and in as cool a place as I can. They will check pretty quick if you don't. I usually put 1 coat on, let it dry and then another. I use slightly watered down wood glue.
 Pappy
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Bows / Re: 2024 Bow Trade - sign up open
« Last post by Swampman on May 28, 2024, 08:59:11 am »
Yes, I am indeed interested.
I am in.

RH
45-60
27 Inch Draw
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Subscriptions / Is EMAG being continued?
« Last post by jpitts on May 27, 2024, 03:38:05 pm »
I haven't seen and activity in a long time.
Whats going on?

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Bows / Re: Rock Maple
« Last post by Doug509 on May 27, 2024, 02:38:54 pm »
Okay I started shaping the limbs and found a vein of spalting and dead heartwood.   I decided to scrape out the dead wood creating a hollow limb design. I filled the remaining pith with super glue. I think I'm going to be Okay.   I'm going to steam in the curves and hope nothing splits.

https://flic.kr/p/2pTJpTe
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Bows / Re: Stress and performance
« Last post by mmattockx on May 27, 2024, 01:10:09 pm »
Quote from: Selfbowman on May 26, 2024, 06:33:53 pm
I don’t recommend this with a selfbow unless you want to make the bow build a long slow build. Now made from different laminators it would be much easier.

I agree, Arvin. I made one maple pyramid from a board using software calculated dimensions and it was a significant nuisance to keep measuring thickness with calipers and slowly sneaking up on the final dimensions while tying to keep everything even and correct. Switching to a multi-lam bow design was much, much more straightforward and I had better control of the important dimensions.


Mark
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