It was probably really too green as wood, I thought I'd start working on it so that it could dry a little faster but on the back some bark was removed as well some small cracks formed, I probably had to put some vinyl on that part of the wood but no, the glue jar was finished
Should I switch to another wood or is there something I could do to save it?
Hi...I asked my father if he could get me a black locust tree trunk, after all he told me that there were some trees in some areas where he works but in the end he got me a long branch of a olive tree, probably 1.90 m or a little more, smooth bark without knots on the affected part, and its thickness should be about 5 cm.
Obviously I don't have a caliper to make an accurate measurement , but what I know is that the olive tree can have slightly twisted and wide veins, obviously I have other materials that I can use
Well ok they are still trees like black locust, tree of heaven, pear and also laurel "Laurus nobilis"
I was taking a walk around the cemetery and I found a disemboweled magpie, it still has meat and feathers on it, I did a quick check, apparently his head and I immediately assume his skull is still intact.
Well now comes the best part, how do I clean his bones? He's still in the ground, I left a marker so I can get him back later.
Hello, are some black locust branches approximately 2 cm in diameter suitable for building an arch? .
So, the idea was to take these branches, as mentioned they are 2cm thick at the base and something, I don't have a caliper to give a specific measurement, and they have a length of about 1.80m
Precisely because they are quite thin I thought of building a laminated arch and gluing the two parts with tidebond or rabbit glue
The two branches are knot-free, fairly smooth if we ignore the thick thorns of the black locust, but after all, those will go away with the peeling.
So could this work as a craft? Or I could literally cut one of the tree trunks and make it into 4 quarters for a longbow 😅