bunya pine for arras

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bunya pine for arras

#1 Post by grof » Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:51 pm

has any one had any experience with using bunya pine for making arras .I was doin a bit of tidyn up in the horses paddock .just piling stuff up into a fire heap and come along some limbs i'd cut off a bunja bout 2"dia an 12' long try'd to break it in half to my surprise somthin so thin and dry ,i'd cut it bout a year previous ,near bent in half :surprised: . Got me thinking, I asked toz about it ,seems its pretty close to port orford just a little lighter has any one ever try'd it for arra making :?:

any advice most apreciated as i have a strong desire to make as much of my kit as poss from my own land

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Re: bunya pine for arras

#2 Post by woodie » Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:10 pm

Make some out of it and see. I did that with popler pine, they are not to bad but they do not like hitting dead tree trunks.
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#3 Post by kimall » Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:16 pm

I use hoop pine floor boards to make arrows and it works great.The guy that showed me how told me then that bunya was even better but I have never found any yet to try.
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Re: bunya pine for arras

#4 Post by grof » Tue Jun 26, 2012 9:23 pm

looks like i'll be making some bunya arras cheers KIM

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#5 Post by woodie » Tue Jun 26, 2012 11:02 pm

Kim where do you get hoop pine floor boards from?
That would be better thanusing dowel I think.
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Re: bunya pine for arras

#6 Post by Stickbow Hunter » Wed Jun 27, 2012 10:35 am

Woodie, A lot of the old homes up in Queensland had their walls and floors made of tongue and groove Hoop Pine flooring. It was beautiful 'A' grade wood too. Hoop Pine is available from timber yards also.

A mate of mine has thousands of Hoop Pine shafts that were professionally made but he is too lazy to sort them out and put them up here for sale. :confused:

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#7 Post by kimall » Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:58 pm

Jeff got it I use old boards a chippy mate of mine pulls out of houses when he does renos.
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#8 Post by woodie » Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:07 pm

I don't think there is much down here, well I have not seen it anyway, I have been using hoop pine for ages but I to go through all the dowels at bunnings to get the right ones.
I will have to look around for some boards though.
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#9 Post by Nutgrass » Wed Jun 27, 2012 7:13 pm

I have used it before. I didn't make them myself, they were brought shafts.
But they were ok, a bit easy to snap off at the start of the taper.
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