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Offline ---GUTSHOT--->

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Hackberry ?
« on: December 13, 2016, 10:34:25 pm »
I'm building a hackberry bow for the Moontree Gathering. I know it's a white wood and all I have to do is strip the bark and cambium then use the top layer of white wood. My ? Is after I smoothed the bark down it had such a cool looking natural camo pattern can I just leave the cambium and bark and build a bow like that or does it have to come off?


Offline PatM

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Re: Hackberry ?
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2016, 11:05:50 pm »
Few woods handle left on bark very well.

Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Hackberry ?
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2016, 11:54:39 pm »
Hackberry has a thick cambium layer under that bark.  I would remove it. 
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Offline JonW

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Re: Hackberry ?
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2016, 10:32:59 am »
Remove the bark Paul. You can do a natural camo with the cambium.

Offline Badly Bent

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Re: Hackberry ?
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2016, 07:35:15 pm »
I'm with Jon on this one, you can leave some cambium here and there and make a cool camo pattern, just get artistic with your scraper. If it happens to have real thick cambium careful use of the scraper will thin it without completely removing it where you want some left behind.
Hackberry is one of the easier wood to create this type of camo pattern on.
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