Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: BowEd on June 05, 2020, 07:40:12 pm
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Shagbark hickory.3" diameter/28" long.Red cedar plug.
(https://i.imgur.com/q4nNUDd.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/H4PqSAK.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/2aawQz7.jpg)
(https://i.imgur.com/nlmHGyv.jpg)
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Very nice work Ed
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Thanks Clint....I knew people who've been at this long enough appreciate something different.To make these I let it dry completely around something to the desired circumference.
I would of used this as a quiver but hickory bark is rather thick making the quiver too heavy IMO.Rather use leather/fur/or rawhide.
The other half of the bark I set onto the top rail of a wooden fence of sort.It has shrunk onto that rail as tight as a misqitoes A hole.
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That's really cool. I just noticed that the hickory bark I peeled off this spring had curled up like that and wondered if it could be used for something. Mine was from a smaller tree though, so it would only fit a few arrows.
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Bow-Ed : great looking arrow storage tube. Shagbark Hickory no less. Outstanding.
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Yes if left on it's own not around something to dry completely to give it a final shape it will shrink into a very small unserviceable tube.A person would need to rehydrate it and let it dry around a larger circumference shape.
If a round form is not used it will warp also.Example.
(https://i.imgur.com/9X8yU2l.jpg)
Tube shown at beginning of post same as left shown tube is actually from 1 half of a trees' circumference.
Hickory here will have a very thick cambium layer compared to most other trees.Close to 1/8" thick.Revealed when it is popped off as the sap is flowing and the bark removed as shown on tube on right.
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That is really nice. I could never use something like that as a quiver, aside from the weight...I'd set it against a tree and never be able to find it again! ;D