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Offline Stick Bender

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Lucky 5 min Hedge find !
« on: January 19, 2018, 09:43:09 am »
I was looking for a peace of hedge for slats or lams and stumbled upon a off shoot of a crotch that looks strait grained to me if Im reading the bark right the rest of the tree looked to spiral grained but only took 5 min. to cut and seal I wasn't planning on cutting hedge today just stumbled upon it lucky find ! This one looks like it would make a good self bow to its going to be a hard choice to lumberise ! Its strait for about 76 in. and takes a bit of a lateral curve.
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Offline Stick Bender

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Re: Lucky 5 min Hedge find !
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2018, 09:43:45 am »
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Offline Del the cat

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Re: Lucky 5 min Hedge find !
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2018, 09:53:19 am »
Sweet find :)
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Offline bradsmith2010

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Re: Lucky 5 min Hedge find !
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2018, 11:39:13 am »
thats self bow,, dont cut it sell it to me,,  (-S

Offline Stick Bender

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Re: Lucky 5 min Hedge find !
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2018, 11:45:22 am »
This one is not crooked enough for you Brad 🤢
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Offline Hawkdancer

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Re: Lucky 5 min Hedge find !
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2018, 11:48:47 am »
Looks like there may be more than one bow in there! :BB
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Re: Lucky 5 min Hedge find !
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2018, 11:51:25 am »
Looks like a nice find.
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Offline Stick Bender

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Re: Lucky 5 min Hedge find !
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2018, 12:24:53 pm »
Might be able to get 5 bows if I cut slats it really was a lucky find we where out doing other stuff and I spoted it & lucky we had the chain saw with us it was a spur of the moment find.
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Lucky 5 min Hedge find !
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2018, 12:48:21 pm »
That's a nice looking piece of osage.  If you are going to split it into staves you might want to bust it in half so the ends don't start checking on it.
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Offline Stick Bender

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Re: Lucky 5 min Hedge find !
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2018, 12:59:29 pm »
Thanks Clint I sealed it with poly right after cutting I will probably split it out his week end !
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Offline ohma2

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Re: Lucky 5 min Hedge find !
« Reply #10 on: January 20, 2018, 09:46:43 am »
Nice find .