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wvfknapper

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Re: plum branch bow
« Reply #15 on: March 13, 2008, 09:59:26 pm »
I got two nice pieces of plum drying now  ;D it looks like some really dense wood..........Cut a pear a couple weeks ago and didn't get a stave from it,,when you split it,  the grain just runs out,, it's pretty wood tho.

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Re: plum branch bow
« Reply #16 on: March 13, 2008, 10:01:41 pm »
WVflintknapper
Any desire to get rid of one of those pieces of plum.
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Re: plum branch bow
« Reply #17 on: March 13, 2008, 10:14:04 pm »
oh this is goin to like maggots on a dead skunk,   me first, no me, no no me, i called it.....but we all know the answer already....separte from those plum staves?, not a chance ;).- Ryan
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Re: plum branch bow
« Reply #18 on: March 13, 2008, 10:16:37 pm »
I was hoping that I was gonna be the only maggot on the skunk. ;D
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wvfknapper

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Re: plum branch bow
« Reply #19 on: March 13, 2008, 11:32:57 pm »
oh this is goin to like maggots on a dead skunk,   me first, no me, no no me, i called it.....but we all know the answer already....separte from those plum staves?, not a chance ;).- Ryan

LOL,,, Ya hit it right on the head Ryan  ;D Couldn't part with them.

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Re: plum branch bow
« Reply #20 on: March 16, 2008, 11:10:57 pm »
I was up in Kentucky this weekend and cut a chunk of some sort of wild plum. It's a bit short and crooked, but I'm gonna try to get something out of it. There are lots of wild plums around here but they all look like petrified pretzels.
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Re: plum branch bow
« Reply #21 on: March 16, 2008, 11:22:03 pm »
wasn't the chapter on bow wood great? although it has caused me much grief. a few years ago i was just getting into bow making, while simultaneously doing some landscaping. to make a long story short, i removed and threw out about 14 very large overgrown lilac bushes. :( now i find out that lilac can make a great bow. there must have been a few hundred bows in there.
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Re: plum branch bow
« Reply #22 on: March 16, 2008, 11:39:59 pm »
I have discovered a discarded pear tree in the neighbors ditch. I would think that it would work as well as plumb. Gonna give it a try regardless - I'm going to sneak down there with the chainsaw next week. I know everyone thinks I've fallen off the deep end ;D.
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