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nickf

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Re: 50# hazel sapling
« Reply #15 on: March 29, 2009, 06:58:54 am »
thanks Bent Rig! I did my best on this one's finish, and really enjoyed staining :) Gotto buy some other colours!
thanks David!
thanks Cracker
thanks Oldbow, I feel really honoured! the BOM is a great unique future only PA has, making this forum even better ;) thanks for bookmarking and your compliments!
thanks George! gotto thank you on PP aswell, gimme a sec :p
thanks Redwasp! it doesn't have an extraordinary cast, but shoots a lil' quicker than my other sapling bows, probably because of the very little set.
thank you Hawkbow, this one won't make meat, sadly. Bowhunting ain't allowed in the Netherlands!
thanks Rick! Hazel bark is just goodlooking eh? :)

Nick

Offline DanaM

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Re: 50# hazel sapling
« Reply #16 on: March 29, 2009, 07:41:31 am »
Thats a sweet little sapling bow Nick, congrats on a job well done.
Enjoy lazy while yer young all too soon the real world will intrude ;) :)
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Offline medicinewheel

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Re: 50# hazel sapling
« Reply #17 on: March 29, 2009, 07:49:06 am »
Well done! Really like the look of the bark still on, too!
Frank from Germany...

Offline Bear

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Re: 50# hazel sapling
« Reply #18 on: March 29, 2009, 11:03:34 am »
Way cool. Love the bark.
Just remember, you can't put the wood back on.

East Tennessee

Offline Staver

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Re: 50# hazel sapling
« Reply #19 on: March 29, 2009, 01:27:05 pm »
That's a cool looking bow! 8)  Makes me want to go out and get a sapling and go to work on it!!  Super job!!  Joe H

Offline JBL

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Re: 50# hazel sapling
« Reply #20 on: March 29, 2009, 02:56:25 pm »
That is realy a cool bow I really like the bark.

Offline Bullitt

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Re: 50# hazel sapling
« Reply #21 on: March 29, 2009, 03:08:07 pm »
Nick, GREAT JOB! Do me a favor, soak up all the  great info from the old farts on here and do us proud. I loved that last pic!

Offline Pat B

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Re: 50# hazel sapling
« Reply #22 on: March 29, 2009, 03:54:47 pm »
Nice hazelnut bow, Nick. I have a hazelnut stave I'm working on now! 
   I have read about leaving bark on some wood bows but haven't tried it yet. I have added bark as decoration. Any special treatment for hazelnut bark?
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC

nickf

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Re: 50# hazel sapling
« Reply #23 on: March 29, 2009, 04:59:46 pm »
thanks Pat! goodluck with your staves! take care with the hazel bark, you'd better sand it thin, since it likes to crack. You'll need a young and thin bark, so probably a 2" or thinner sapling.

yeah thanks Bulit! I'll do ;)

thanks JbL!

thanks alot staver! now go out! :p

thank you Bear!

thanks Medicineweel, bark seems to have something attractive :)

Dana, cruel world is already intruding, with a test week. ,, wich tomorrow starts :p Gotto start learning right now ;)

Nick

Offline Pat B

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Re: 50# hazel sapling
« Reply #24 on: March 29, 2009, 05:37:46 pm »
Nick, thanks for the insight. Thinning the bark(probably mostly the cambium?) makes since. I won't try it with my hazelnut because it is from a bigger stave but I will with a sapling.  Thanks!
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC