Hey Dave,
Glad you like your stuff buddy, Wish I had a big piece of hide for you instead of little bits but I think they could be handy and I was planning on using the fine leg hide pieces as arrow pass/rest. Dew claw arrow rest? Someone told me they used the jaws for knife handles ...
Hope you find some good use in it all and a great bow in those billets. You like that split on them suckers?
Aaron, I like that bow drill idea.
Stringman,
I'm still floored by the gifts. I am thinking on how to use ribs and hump vertebrae as a drum rim and base tied with sinew or maybe some gut I have drying??
One way or another I will create a drum with that hide!
Too much cool stuff going around to mention it all. You all are an awesome bunch.