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Best Wood For Atlatl


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Best Wood For Atlatl. The wood types that will work best for the dart are ocean spray (holodiscus discolor), red osier dogwood (cornus sericea), beaked hazel (corylus cornuta), big leaf maple (acer macrophyllum), willow (salix spp.), and bitter cherry (prunus emarginata). My hope then, is for us to be able to start what might become a sticky, listing atlatl woods and dart woods with notes about their.

Some Beautiful Contemporary Atlatls Richard Lyons Survival, Catawba
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You probably can't throw it as far, but it should still work. As for style, i personally recommend finding a cultural group you are interested in or just a design that strikes your fancy and dive in. Osage orange wood, buckskin, sinew, pitch glue and red argylite.

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Some Beautiful Contemporary Atlatls Richard Lyons Survival, Catawba

Wood is cheap, easily worked and plentiful. The wood types that will work best for the dart are ocean spray (holodiscus discolor), red osier dogwood (cornus sericea), beaked hazel (corylus cornuta), big leaf maple (acer macrophyllum), willow (salix spp.), and bitter cherry (prunus emarginata). All i have to do is after cutting the shoot is to shape the smaller fork into a point with a knife and whip a para cord handle onto the main. You probably can't throw it as far, but it should still work.

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