@CrysNBoo - Just cut and split them the first of the year. Like always, there's one or two that look really good and should turn into a nice bow if I don't mess them up.
That was fun to watch! I have been doing the same thing with arrow wood viburnum shafts using the boiled berries from the viburnum plant. I use the dark purple juice as a stain that i brush on. If you put several coats on it will get really dark. On some of them I burnish the shafts with a piece of deer antler to give them a nice rich shine. Keep you videos coming! Rey in Ohio
@cplrey - I've used wild poke berry juice too. Figured if it would stain your fingers, it would stain wood too. I've heard that it was actually used as ink in the past, never looked it up though.
@finaltom5 - The hide glue will hold the color to the shaft. If I just used water it would end up wiping off or smearing. Even using hide glue, a few dozen shots into a dirt bank will start wearing the color off but I'd rather recover it with some bright red from a ten point buck...:)
some nice Osage stave there too!
CrysNBoo 10 months ago
@CrysNBoo - Just cut and split them the first of the year. Like always, there's one or two that look really good and should turn into a nice bow if I don't mess them up.
ShinBone5000 10 months ago
That was fun to watch! I have been doing the same thing with arrow wood viburnum shafts using the boiled berries from the viburnum plant. I use the dark purple juice as a stain that i brush on. If you put several coats on it will get really dark. On some of them I burnish the shafts with a piece of deer antler to give them a nice rich shine. Keep you videos coming! Rey in Ohio
cplrey 11 months ago
@cplrey - I've used wild poke berry juice too. Figured if it would stain your fingers, it would stain wood too. I've heard that it was actually used as ink in the past, never looked it up though.
ShinBone5000 11 months ago
Do you use hide glue because you want more of a deep color or because water will just soak in the wood and not mix well? TY for sharing. PEACE OUT!
finaltom5 11 months ago
@finaltom5 - The hide glue will hold the color to the shaft. If I just used water it would end up wiping off or smearing. Even using hide glue, a few dozen shots into a dirt bank will start wearing the color off but I'd rather recover it with some bright red from a ten point buck...:)
ShinBone5000 11 months ago
@ShinBone5000 AHH so the river cane doesn't soak up water as well as wood then?. Kind of like bamboo? TY
finaltom5 11 months ago