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Information and Resources => Trading Post => Topic started by: Bow Nut on June 16, 2011, 04:09:51 pm

Title: looking for some good osage or yew or mulberry staves have much to trade
Post by: Bow Nut on June 16, 2011, 04:09:51 pm

I have all the sinew you could want, some osage boards, 2 prairie rattle snake skins, rawhide backings, moso bamboo backings, 75 pound at 28 inch bamboo backed hickory with an IPE core bow.  Looking to get as many nice staves as possible. 

Title: Re: looking for some good osage or yew or mulberry staves have much to trade
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on June 16, 2011, 06:37:41 pm

I have some pretty nice mulberry billets that are extra long, I believe 46" plus. They are peeled and sealed, about 4 weeks old.

Title: Re: looking for some good osage or yew or mulberry staves have much to trade
Post by: Bow Nut on June 16, 2011, 06:57:53 pm

do you need anything I have to trade with?  I also have some very nice hand made obsidian and flint knifes and blades I make my self and obsidian flint agate and jasper arrow heads mounted already but I can make up some more if you would rather just have the head. as well as the other mentioned items

thanks

Title: Re: looking for some good osage or yew or mulberry staves have much to trade
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on June 17, 2011, 12:38:31 am

I could use some skins. How long are those buggers?

Title: Re: looking for some good osage or yew or mulberry staves have much to trade
Post by: Bow Nut on June 17, 2011, 12:26:22 pm

one is 39 inches with rattles and one is 39.5 inches with rattles.  I also have many whitetail deer rawhide strips about 2.5 inches wide by 45 inches long.

Title: Re: looking for some good osage or yew or mulberry staves have much to trade
Post by: Stingray45 on June 17, 2011, 04:58:28 pm

How much rawhide do you have? And what lengths? Ready to go on a bow? I have a nice pretty big osage stave. I can get some exact measurements when I get home.

Title: Re: looking for some good osage or yew or mulberry staves have much to trade
Post by: Bow Nut on June 17, 2011, 05:28:33 pm

have 8 strips, need 2 to do one bow.  and all they need is a good soaking and glue up

Title: Re: looking for some good osage or yew or mulberry staves have much to trade
Post by: Bow Nut on June 17, 2011, 09:39:11 pm

I would say they are about 45 to 50 inches each with out measuring sorry missed that part on the rawhide

Title: Re: looking for some good osage or yew or mulberry staves have much to trade
Post by: billy bowmaker on August 13, 2011, 07:31:20 am

interested in trading sinew for black locust?  I've got a few character staves you can have for sinew or snakeskin.

Title: Re: looking for some good osage or yew or mulberry staves have much to trade
Post by: hillbilly61 on August 13, 2011, 10:35:29 pm

What's the dimensions of the Osage boards? Do you need any cane?

Title: Re: looking for some good osage or yew or mulberry staves have much to trade
Post by: Bow Nut on August 16, 2011, 03:29:52 pm

I have plenty of cane hillbilly61 and I have cut all the boards down to 1.5 inch by 1.5 inche by 72 inch I started out with 100 board feet and now probably am down to 60 after all the waist and billits I ended up with while working all the knots and cracks out.  I have cut all the billets down to lams for making pre tapered core lams.  I think I would like to hang on to my osage boards anyway as I have found a great use for it. 

BIlly I am out of sinew but have other things for trade anything else you would be interested in?