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Author Topic: Making cedar bow rack  (Read 1277 times)

Offline doctari

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Making cedar bow rack
« on: December 31, 2007, 08:23:00 PM »


I am starting to make a cedar bow rack for my bows and look what I found imbedded in the cedar. I put some stain on it to show up a little better. I thought it was cool and thought I would share it with you.
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Offline Dirty Bill

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Re: Making cedar bow rack
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2007, 09:03:00 PM »
Is that a bug? It looks like a bug..   :rolleyes:

Offline doctari

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Re: Making cedar bow rack
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2007, 09:18:00 PM »
Yes, does anyone know what kind it might be? It is about 1-2 inches long
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Offline Dirty Bill

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Re: Making cedar bow rack
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2007, 09:29:00 PM »
It's a dead bug.   :rolleyes:    :campfire:

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Re: Making cedar bow rack
« Reply #4 on: December 31, 2007, 09:40:00 PM »
I am glad it's dead. LOL, actually it is just it's impression in the wood, like a fossil.
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Re: Making cedar bow rack
« Reply #5 on: December 31, 2007, 09:41:00 PM »
LOOKS COOL BUT I DONT KNOW WHAT IT IS.THANKS FOR THE PICS  :thumbsup:
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Offline Boar Hog

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Re: Making cedar bow rack
« Reply #6 on: December 31, 2007, 10:17:00 PM »
neat, any pic's of your bow rack????

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Re: Making cedar bow rack
« Reply #7 on: December 31, 2007, 10:52:00 PM »
Hope you figure out how to keep it the racks face.
That's cool.
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Re: Making cedar bow rack
« Reply #8 on: December 31, 2007, 11:02:00 PM »
Millipede with a squarshed head.

Offline Bodork

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Re: Making cedar bow rack
« Reply #9 on: January 01, 2008, 12:57:00 AM »
That's awesome! I'd sure try to show that off in the rack somehow.  Mike

Offline Falk

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Re: Making cedar bow rack
« Reply #10 on: January 01, 2008, 08:47:00 AM »
I am no Entomologist but this should be the feeding burrow of some kind of wood eating beetle larvae.
It looks cool though, somehow like a dragon fly going full throttle - so you can't see the outer parts of her wings  :D

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Re: Making cedar bow rack
« Reply #11 on: January 01, 2008, 08:58:00 AM »
Agreed, Falk.

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Re: Making cedar bow rack
« Reply #12 on: January 01, 2008, 09:03:00 AM »
Don't forget about ambers????Ya know the bug was climbing up to his tree stand and got stuck in some sap.And Bam,never seen the light of day again.Tree grew around him pinning his lifeless body to a groth ring forever........Pretty cool bd

Offline Falk

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Re: Making cedar bow rack
« Reply #13 on: January 01, 2008, 10:24:00 AM »
Our europian bark beetle Genus Ips would do some quite similar damaged to the inner bark layer of firs and such. It belongs to the beetle family Solytidae. So I did just a single google search for it and pretty much nailed it, I suppose  ;)

Yours was propably done by the cedar bark beetle: Phloeosinus sp.
The center structure is done by the adult female. The "head" is done by the male - building a chamber for - you know what purpose  ;)  Eggs are then laid and the larvaes will feed outwards - forming the "wings" - slowly growing - thus makeing the burrows wider towards the ends.

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Re: Making cedar bow rack
« Reply #14 on: January 01, 2008, 11:17:00 AM »
And they say nothing eats cedar...  "[dntthnk]"  

Falk, I read a great book in camp by Edward Way Teale, on the work of J. Henri Fabre, "The Insect world of J. Henri Fabre".

Fabre lived from 1823 to 1915, and was called by Darwin "Incomparable Observer". If you also speak and read French, you would be doubly fortunate to be able to read his original works.

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Offline doctari

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Re: Making cedar bow rack
« Reply #15 on: January 01, 2008, 11:25:00 AM »
Thanks for the information Falk, I will leave it on there and polyurethane over it. I will show pick's of bow rack when completed.
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Re: Making cedar bow rack
« Reply #16 on: January 01, 2008, 11:28:00 AM »
Falk nailed it, Phloeosinus sp., They generally work as a secondary pathogen to already weakened trees.

Offline Falk

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Re: Making cedar bow rack
« Reply #17 on: January 01, 2008, 12:01:00 PM »
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Falk, ..., "The Insect world of J. Henri Fabre".
..., and was called by Darwin "Incomparable Observer". If you also speak and read French, you would be doubly fortunate to be able to read his original works.
A little Spanish, yes, but no French, no! Reading French and getting a general idea is sometimes possible due to latin origin, but I always was in big trouble when I had to process French literature for my studies  :o
"Observing" (the details) is unfortunately a lost art for many people. I always try to watch just them ...
And yes, I like to have at least one book, providing me with the outlines of any given subject of interest, as in this case. Thank you for your hint, I might keep a look at it.


Khayyam,
nice I did something right, not?!

Doctari,
you are welcome! I always had a special love in "trace fossils" - as "we" call it.
I will wait for the pictures of your finished rack. If it turns out like that one in the other thread, it will be worth it!

 :wavey:  Falk

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Re: Making cedar bow rack
« Reply #18 on: January 15, 2008, 04:10:00 PM »
Doctari I have seen your wood work before,excellent. Did you purchase more bows or are you selling the other bow rack OR is this going to be a build-along....cool
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Re: Making cedar bow rack
« Reply #19 on: January 15, 2008, 04:56:00 PM »
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