Still Whittling!

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T. C. Weston

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Still at it! This time, aromatic Red Cedar. My hope is to get a bow out of this, backed with sinew and sturgeon skins. I've got a few days off with the kids here next week, so I'll post any pics and progress I can. Oh, the white rock chips in the pic are Ndoghouse's Novaculite he sent me. Still having fun with it!

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The KLVUK effortlessly eats through this soft wood. Should make short work of this project. If it fails, I'll have some nice stuff to perfume the house at any rate!
 
I can just smell those wood chips. Love that smell! I have to admit I would not think that cedar would make a good bow because of the soft long grains. I guess that is what the sinew and sturgeon skins are for, to keep it from splintering. Awesome, lots of pictures please!
 
I understand that Cedar is resistant to compression, but is lousy for tension. Don't know if this will work or not, but we will see.
 
My brother's bow has a strip of sap wood along it's length. Gives it some kind of strength, I think.
 
It always helps. This is a quarter sawn timber that's been laying around way too long. Going to at least give it a chance to become something useful. Any chance to use the Khukuri is its own reward!
 
Well thought out :D And using the Khuk on that wood must be enormously fun. I don't think anything shaves quite like a length of dry cedar...or smells as good either. As you said at the very least you wind up with some great cedar potpourri and the opportunity to make long curly shavings with the khuk and at best a you will have one really unique bow, that I doubt has even a close relative anywhere. Win either way in my book, though I know which result I am really hoping to get to see pics of...and it isn't a bowl of potpourri shavings.



edit... though from Bac Si's post there might be a closer relative than I gave credit for that he knows about. Would love for him to fill in the fuzzy mental picture I have now (yeah, minds get fuzzy when you are closer to being an antiquity than the start of being vintage) with a bit of detail :D
 
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HA! My eyes went strait to them Novaculite shavings for some reason:rolleyes: I finally busted up all mine. Ive been making (mostly breakin) fish hooks lately. Got some sinew and a cane pole so im going fishing soon. We got a knap-in in Pedernales TX next weekend and another in Louisianna the following weekend so maybe ill pick up some more rock.

Thats going to make a great looking bow. Love the color of red cedar. I have plenty of it around here but most is too old and checked. Sturgeon skin? Hadnt thought about that. Ive never seen a sturgeon but they would make great skins I suppose being almost dinosaurs. Good luck and thanks for posting!
 
Sure wish I had me a couple them fish hooks. Maybe my parole officer would let me go fishing and not just walk the yard.
 
I was thinking about that sturgeon skin too. I was thinking it would make a nice grip panel for a sword too. When you back with a sturgeon skin is it possible to keep the denticles? Or do they come off when you are liming the skins?
 
I've never used it before, but a friend gave them to me and they are thicker than the white tail rawhide I've used. It'll be an interesting combination for sure!
 
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