Osage billets or short bow staves

[gstoneberg]

I have 2 sets of billets with sapwood removed but not to a growth ring.  The first set are 51" long, suitable for short bows, and are a vertical set of sisters.  The top one is wider than the bottom one. One end is recurved.  Both have wind checks, but there's enough good wood for a bow limb or a bendy-handled shorty.  I'll show those in the pictures.  I will separate these if somebody just wants a bendy-handle short stave.





The other set are 40" long, adjacent sisters, one with a big knot at the end (wish I'd have left a couple more inches of wood beyond that knot).  Not to a growth ring yet, but the sapwood has been removed.



I have 2 other sets of sister billets in the shop which I can clean up if there's interest.  They have more character.



I need pine pitch the worst; then arrow shaft material, or even completed arrows for a 50# or 60# selfbow. 

George

[Bow Nut]

I have about a pound of pine pitch but it is straight from trees not store bough still a little dirty have no melted and cleaned it out yet and I have some shaft material mostly port orford cedar and some tonkin can I would rather trade the pitch

[gstoneberg]

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George

[soy]

Need sister billits pm sent

[gstoneberg]

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[Stingray45]

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