[RickWild]

A friend gave me this stave. Took the bark off yesterday.

 

[RickWild]

A friend gave me this stave. Took the bark off yesterday. View attachment 32225

Cleaned the end up so I could study the growth rings

 

[RickWild]

The pencil points to the ring I want for the bow back. Put the stave in a vice and 45 minutes had enough wood removed near the end to expose the ring.

 

[lynn1130]

Good. Glad you found the wood you needed.

 

[RickWild]

Lynn, I was very fortunate to meet a man that gladly donated this to my next adventure.
The journey continued.
Thanks Lynn for your efforts

 

[Pirogue]

“Hedge Hog”??? Hog???? Hope the giver wasn’t offended by that label. Known as Hedge Apple, Horse Apple, Bodock, and bois d’arc.
But not HOG, especially by anyone who has ever been around them.

 

[RickyG]

“Hedge Hog”??? Hog???? Hope the giver wasn’t offended by that label. Known as Hedge Apple, Horse Apple, Bodock, and bois d’arc.
But not HOG, especially by anyone who has ever been around them.

 

[Savageman2506]

“Hedge Hog”??? Hog???? Hope the giver wasn’t offended by that label. Known as Hedge Apple, Horse Apple, Bodock, and bois d’arc.
But not HOG, especially by anyone who has ever been around them.

 

[Clifffalling]

He was saying Osage orange is not known as "hedge hog" (in the title). But rather as the other names he gave. Have no idea as to the veracity of the statement, but that's how I read it.

 

[lynn1130]

Osage trees were/are used in most hedge rows along roads and pasture dividing lines in plains states, especially Kansas etc. They have nasty thorns and grow together to provide “ fencing” for livestock. The fruit, which has a bunch of names but I always knew it as hedge apple is not edible.

 

[Pirogue]

View attachment 32238

That’s exactly how the bow maker would look, when he shows off his finished product, and says, “Hey look at my bow I made out of hedge hog”, and the guy starts laughing. Bow maker thinks the guy is laughing at his bow building ability, rather than his not knowing what the wood is called. Or, guy is thinking it sure would take a big hedge hog to get enough sinew to make a bow.

 

[RickWild]

“Hedge Hog”??? Hog???? Hope the giver wasn’t offended by that label. Known as Hedge Apple, Horse Apple, Bodock, and bois d’arc.
But not HOG, especially by anyone who has ever been around them.

Welp, what can I say. My brain was not working so well when I came up with”hog”. Certainly meant Apple. Maybe it was that sip of bourbon I had. Thanks fellas for straightening me out.

 

[azelkhntr]

Well, that seemed petty. I look forward to seeing how the bow shapes up RW.

 

[lynn1130]

Rick, I never saw a hedge hog in the hedge rows in Kansas but who knows maybe you are correct

 

[gavinspop]

I had a hedge hog for a pet when i was a kid. That sucker would sink his teeth in to your fingers something awful.

 

[RickyG]

I had a hedge hog in a hedgerow but lost it when i hedged my bets

 

[CMoor]

I had a hedge hog he was a real prick...

 

[rk]

When my wife and I were living in England, I literally found a hedgehog in the hedge outside our sitting room window.

 

[RickWild]

And where conversations go…nobody knows.

Update. Probably will be about 2 weeks till I get enough wood off the back then I can draw my outline on it. Handle and all. The back of my shoulders are getting a very good workout.

 

[RickWild]

So much for my 2 week update. But progress is happening. But very slowly. Taking my time so I do not make that big mistake