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Alaskan cedar longbow
« on: January 16, 2010, 11:27:51 AM »
My dad has a cedar shake and shingle mill that used to be an old lumber mill back in the day and there is lots of old chunks of cedar laying around the place. A couple weeks ago he was looking around the pieces of wood and found a pretty good size piece of alaskan yellow cedar laying in the bushes. It got me thinking about if you could make a longbow out of it or not. Seems to me that yellow cedar is far harder wood than red cedar (which is worthless for bow making) and I'm thinking it might be possible. Has anyone made one out of yellow cedar or know someone who has? Is it even worth trying?

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Re: Alaskan cedar longbow
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2010, 12:24:58 PM »
I pinged a buddy who makes bows...we will see what he says
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Re: Alaskan cedar longbow
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2010, 06:12:10 PM »
I have seen alaskan yellow cedar long bows.  Some guy was making them at a muzzloader shoot I was at.  Can not remember much he was saying about the wood but he was selling them.

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Re: Alaskan cedar longbow
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2010, 06:15:16 PM »
makes great arrows!!  haul it out of the brush.
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Re: Alaskan cedar longbow
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2010, 07:34:06 PM »
makes great arrows!!  haul it out of the brush.
Crappy thing is, my dad just just told me he gave the tree away to a guy yesterday with a portable lumber mill just down the road from me.  :'(  :bash: Im hoping I can talk the guy out of a stave or some other chunks of wood tomorrow.   

 


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