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I spotted a nice(ish) log of cherry in the woods, it was lieing against another tree almost horizontal, a tiny bit of root was still attached and it had very old, healed up axe marks around the base. There was a lot of sawn branches about where someone had been 'tidying up' fallen trees?
I sawed it cleanly at the base hoping it may sprout up again.
It's split nicely into one decent length and a shorter billet (where I had to cutt off the old axe dameaged piece) which may make some individual limbs or a spliced bow.
Chakazulu mentioned thinking of trying a Cherry Maple combo.
Anyone tried other Cherry Belly bows (now that just sounds funny, I gotta say cherrybelly again )
I thought maybe Ashy Cherry would look really pretty
Anyone tried laminating from natural staves rather than bought/prepared timber? Flat bow vs longbow?
Plenty of time for armchair work as it's gotta season yet.
Ideas, comments?
Del
I sawed it cleanly at the base hoping it may sprout up again.
It's split nicely into one decent length and a shorter billet (where I had to cutt off the old axe dameaged piece) which may make some individual limbs or a spliced bow.
Chakazulu mentioned thinking of trying a Cherry Maple combo.
Anyone tried other Cherry Belly bows (now that just sounds funny, I gotta say cherrybelly again )
I thought maybe Ashy Cherry would look really pretty
Anyone tried laminating from natural staves rather than bought/prepared timber? Flat bow vs longbow?
Plenty of time for armchair work as it's gotta season yet.
Ideas, comments?
Del