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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Del the cat on November 26, 2011, 09:11:39 am
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Just been tidying the garage where my stuff is and putting up another couple of shelves for timber.
Sorted out my stash, much of it is just stuff I've picked up and not the best quality, but here's what I got.
Yew
Laburnum
Cherry
Hornbeam
Hazel
Ash
Short billet of Maple
and a nice slat of Boo.
I'm managed to encroach onto area where Mrs Cat keeps her gardening tools... shhhhhh >:D
Del
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Only missing one ingredient Del! I will give you a hint............Its yellow?.....nice assortment of future shaving you have!
I have the following drying or dry:
white ash, American elm, red mulberry, shagbark hickory, hackberry, black locust, and osage. HHB is coming in a month or so. My aunt has some premium HHB growing in her pastured wood lot. Big, straight, clean stuff. Best I have seen yet.
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Only missing one ingredient Del! I will give you a hint............Its yellow?.....nice assortment of future shaving you have!
I have the following drying or dry:
white ash, American elm, red mulberry, shagbark hickory, hackberry, black locust, and osage. HHB is coming in a month or so. My aunt has some premium HHB growing in her pastured wood lot. Big, straight, clean stuff. Best I have seen yet.
Custard?
Banana?
Oh... yeah... you've got Osage over there.
Del
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A LOT!!! >:D.....and that's not all of it either
(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x436/blackhawk28/2011-11-19_19-16-11_850.jpg)
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Show off.....................why dont you toss a pic of a new baby girl in there to rub it in a little more Chris..............."Look at all MY wood and MY new baby girl"
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Hickory, pecan,cherry, post oak, sparkle berry, cherry laurel, american hornbeam and crepe myrtle. BUT...this is my first
time cutting bow wood and most of it is small. Not to worry. Have hooked up with a supplier.
Lane
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Sparkle Berry...? ???
Are you sure you didn't just make that one up? Or is it something given to you by your fairy godmother? ::)
Del
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Show off.....................why dont you toss a pic of a new baby girl in there to rub it in a little more Chris..............."Look at all MY wood and MY new baby girl"
You forgot his new shop/house...wow what a pile o wood!
Me I have hhb,hickory, white ash,black cherry,walnut, red elm, 2 billits of osage,and hackberry
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I was thinking you were getting a bit personal there Del until I read a little farther. ::)
My wood stash is extensive. A little of this, a little of that and even some of those.
Off the top of my head I have osage, locust, ash, elm, ERC, hickory, maple(s), yew, juniper(western), HHB, hornbeam, hackberry...and I'm sure others. That is my bow wood. For arrows I have sourwood, hill cane, river cane, switch cane, bambusa, Tonkin cane, viburnum(s), cherry, ramin dowels and probably others too.
If anyone need a nice well seasoned stave, come on over and I'll set you up. In store deals only! ;D
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Osage, hickory, yew, mulberry, ERC and dogwood.
Here are a few pictures of part of it, staves then billets, actually a drop in the bucket of my total stash.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/ekrewson/bow%20making/stavecollection1.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/ekrewson/bow%20making/billetcollection.jpg)
OOPS! forgot bamboo, this is now dry, cut into slats and planed smooth on the belly.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v181/ekrewson/bow%20making/bamboostash.jpg)
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Yew
Osage
Juniper
Vine Maple
Cascara
Service Berry
Guava
Laburnum
Hickory
Ironwood
Hack berry
Hazel
Crepe Myrtle
Dog Wood
ERC
Laural
Syringa
Wild Rose
Ocean Spray
Buck Thorn
Mountain Ash
Cherry
And a selection of boards like purple heart, Babinga, Brazilian Cherry,Maple and bamboo slats. ;D
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Oooooh, I wish I hadn't started this thread now... I'm all jellyous :laugh:
Del
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Well I have some yellow stuff some, some more yellow stuff and a couple pieces of yellow stuff. I guess all I really have is yellow stuff :P Wait, I found a piece of Hickory too!
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I have:
4 bamboo slats raw
one piece of hard birch that will get two bows,
4 pieces of roughly 1/4 X1.25 or bigger Hickory, all sap wood. I plan to glue them togeather into a recurve. Possibly take down.
1 piece of Lyptus that will be my taper jig for bamboo sandwich type bows or Glass bows (I hate working with glass).
Then on another wall I have 3 roughly 5"X8"X4'-5' flitches of yellow pear.
two 8" dia lX 2' logs of linden. A 4' by 5" by 10" flitch of Linden (Bass wood)~ I'm a carver.
Several flitches from logs of Cherry, Walnut, Syccamore.
A couple cants of Oak (White?).
Two large lile 5"X6" (or bigger) by 8' cants of hard maple with pretty straight grain. Thos can be resawn into several bow blanks if you trust maple. I'm not certain I do or if I do it will be the core on a sandwich bow.
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I have osage, hickory, juniper, crepe myrtle and honey locust in staves; osage, ipe, maple, birch and bamboo in boards or backings. However, the lions share of my wood is yellow (and crooked) too.
George
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Here is one of my favorites in my pile. Still scracthing my head on this one. Dean
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Please make that one a build-a-long when you do it. ;D I've been watching for a piece of osage like that for 20 years and haven't found one yet. Good luck with it, should be awesome.
George
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i have vine maple, black locust, cascara, yew, bitter cherry, hazel, purple plum and holly. in boards I have ipe, osage, and garapa. also have 3 hickory backings and 2 hard maple. lots of materials just no time. :(
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black tupelo.............. :'(
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O.K. George will do. It has some cracks in it which will be a challenge. Dean
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One of these days there is going to be an episode of "Hoarders: Buried Alive" featuring one of you guys. It might even have a photograph of a poor li'l Rascal of a raccoon crushed under the avalance of staves, or something like that.
Gonna give us bowyers a bad image, someone might think we are ALL a bit off! O:)
Osage
Bur oak
Green Ash
Mulberry
Goncalo alves
Bamboo
Maple
Chokecherry
Hickory staves
Hickory boards
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One of these days there is going to be an episode of "Hoarders: Buried Alive" featuring one of you guys. It might even have a photograph of a poor li'l Rascal of a raccoon crushed under the avalance of staves, or something like that.
Gonna give us bowyers a bad image, someone might think we are ALL a bit off! O:)
JW, My late father in-law asked "Dont you think you have enough bow wood"? I don't think he understood the need to try every kind of wood and bow design:o
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Along those lines, I was asked recently how many bows I have made. I said I had lost count, but it was about 200. The guy looked around, not seeing but maybe 8-10 bows in the house and he asked if I made pretty good money selling 'em. I said I've sold maybe a couple dozen at the most, gave away all the rest.
Got me to wondering how I found that many people to give away all those dang bows?!?! I had to make myself stop thinking about it because I could only think of a few instances where someone had ever given me something back. No sense dwelling on it and getting bitter. Kinda like parenting, finish 'em the best you can and let it go at that.
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Here's mine-
Hickory
American Elm
White Ash
Black Walnut
Hazlenut
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I can't leave it like that, did some re-thinking. >:(
I can remember quite a few kids with grins so big I thought they'd crack their jaws! The sight of them runnin' off all elbows and heels to show off their new bow-n-arrow sets puts a pretty hefty balance in the plus column. Very few of them kids said thanks right away, but most came back later when they could breathe and said it. ;D
I'm all right with that.
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not enough :-(
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Maybe someday I can add straight and clean osage to my list
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Jw, you are a good man!
Maybe someday I can add straight and clean osage to my list
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Now if we are talking about straight staves,,,,, well I would be in the lacking department.
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Dean, this is the most beautifull osage I ever saw!!! :D
I vote for Keenan's stash!!! ;)
I have these species:
-black locust
-ash
-elm
-apple
-cherry
-wild plum (two species)
-thuja occidentalis
- maple stave (but I do not like it)
-low quality yew
-elderberry
-hazel (growing around my cabin, not dry staves)
-osage
-dogwood
-euonimus
-rowan
- Tree of heaven
-hawthorn
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-hazel (growing around my cabin, not dry staves)
Kinda like not shooting deer in your own backyard....it's fresher on the hoof for when you really need it!
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I just remembered that I forgot to count all the fruit and ornamental trees in the neighbors yard! :o >:D >:D And if I run out I know where Juniper Junkie's stash is. :o
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I am poor. I have 2 Osage staves,1 Mulberry stave. Billets of both 'orange and M'berry.
Cedar, cherry, and oak planks.
Hickory and maple backing strips
Not many of each, sniff, sniff.
Oh, and one puny chokecherry limb. Sob, sob.
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I am poor. I have 2 Osage staves,1 Mulberry stave. Billets of both 'orange and M'berry.
Cedar, cherry, and oak planks.
Hickory and maple backing strips
Not many of each, sniff, sniff.
Oh, and one puny chokecherry limb. Sob, sob.
Suck it up, Captain Whiney-pants! Get out a saw and go looking! >:D
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I am poor. I have 2 Osage staves,1 Mulberry stave. Billets of both 'orange and M'berry.
Cedar, cherry, and oak planks.
Hickory and maple backing strips
Not many of each, sniff, sniff.
Oh, and one puny chokecherry limb. Sob, sob.
Suck it up, Captain Whiney-pants! Get out a saw and go looking! >:D
Captain whiney -pants ;D ;D ;D
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I got a whole lot of nothing... >:D >:D One little osage sapling.. God I am jelous of some of you guys..
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1 elm log
1/2 of a 10 year old HHB log
a handful of hickory staves
a dozen or so hackberry staves
I might have an osage stave or two also ;)
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Man I left out a stack...hackberry, holly,sycamore, birch, sassafras and a piece of persimmon with 14 C-clamps
on it.
Del, vaccinium arboreum, also known as Farkleberry or tree huckleberry.Toughest stuff I ever tried.
Lane
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my stash isn't near as much as some of you but i have ....
osage -8 staves 1 log and a couple of boards
hackberry 1log 1sapling
post and blackjack oak (can't wait to try) few staves
white oak (boards)
bamboo backing strips 2
mulberry 2 staves
ash
gum bully 1 log 3staves
plus just started bows that i really need to finish ,but i get distracted and start another ::)
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first thing is HOLY CRAP DEAN if i had 2 high quality yew peices and you where willing i would trad....i have some wood...thats all i am saying...john
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I forgot about a nice yew stave that Keenan gave me. I'm holding on to that one until I am a little more experienced.
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what,just jump on the yew train and take her for a ride...
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Yew is hard to come by in Southern Indiana. I'll hone my skills on osage first.
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I have a single osage stave, some decent red oak boards, and about 7 bows worth of super straight ipe boards. soon to come though is a little bit of juniper and some oak in stave form.
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Ready to work I've got some Osage, Hackberry, Vine Maple, Mullberry, and Hickory.... I've got Cherry, Red Cedar, Pear, more Osage, Hickory and a near perfect Yew Stave that need some time to dry.....
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/Yew%20Stave%2069%20inch/69inchYewStave020.jpg)
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/Yew%20Stave%2069%20inch/69inchYewStave021.jpg)
(http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c210/coaster500/Yew%20Stave%2069%20inch/69inchYewStave023.jpg)
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Well... i've just done the same thing as you Del. I had to make some solid racks that hang from the rafters. A friend of mine came round and saw how much wood I had above my vice and joked that one day there would be a headline in the paper 'man buried under tons of wood' - it got me thinking...
ash,
yew,
osage but only a billet and few small scraps
elm ,
european hornbeam,
hop hornbeam,
spindle,
black locust,
hazel,
labernum,
cherry,
dogwood,
alder,
elder,
juniper,
sycamore,
hawthorn
and in boards
- ipe,
maple,
oak
rosewood
padauk
lemonwood
hickory
greenheart
purpleheart
zebrano
moso bamboo
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not so many staves but I have a few:
osage, tamarind, other Thai fruit woods to try, madake bamboo, Thai bamboo, a bunch of black palm,
in boards for bamboo dragons and other bow designs: cherry, osage, Brazilian cherry, Brazilian osage, paduak, maple, tiger maple, figured maple, thai rosewood, a little bit of yew and lots of buffalo horns and sinew for some composite horn bows to try
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Mostly osage :)
I do have a small locust log to split up that I cut last year. I also have some hickory staves and one yew stave that I got a couple years ago.
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Show off.....................why dont you toss a pic of a new baby girl in there to rub it in a little more Chris..............."Look at all MY wood and MY new baby girl"
What can I say,im a proud daddy to all those girls.....hehehehe :laugh:
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I am jealous! I wish I could get a hold of some dogwood or ocean spray, it would be really interesting to try some
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My name is Keenan, I first became aware of my addiction when Dell on PA called us out to list our hidden stash. At first I was unaware that I had a problem then later that night I remembered the pile of staves in the cellar. Then the pile in the loft in the barn, then the pile in the carport, then the pile behind the shop. I wanted to go back and add to the former list but since I had already modified it several times I decided it might reveal that I'm not sure just how much I have hidden away. >:D >:D Now the words of my wonderfull wife echo in my mind. "Just how many piles of stupid sticks do you need?"
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Geez Keenan...what took ya so long to wake up and open up your blind eyes of denial..lol :laugh:
Welcome to Bowyeraholics Anonymous ....my name is Chris
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This has been good stuff-puts a smile on my face!I got lots of elm,hickory,and ash and a wicked piece of osage I've been carving on from George -Hammertime
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Nice looking wood y'all...
Only have a bit o' bow wood so far.
Osage
Black Walnut
Crepe Myrtle
Mesquite
Huisache
Texas Ebony
Pacific Dogwood
Yew
Elm
Hackberry
Mulberry
Sycamore
ERC
Bamboo cut but not ground down yet
Mystery Wood
and a Rosewood Stave (may save this for a Staff)
-gus
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Hi, my name is Greg.
My stash?
A great big pile of various stuff in the garage which has been picked over for a few years now. I really don't know what all is in there and afraid to move too much stuff around for fear of good snake bite. But even today, there is still that one stave that always looks better by closing time.
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osage, tamarind, other Thai fruit woods to try, madake bamboo, Thai bamboo, a bunch of black palm,
Black Palm? WOW! I wanna get my hands on some of that! I have a black palm bow from Papua/New Guinea along with some 'boo arrows, and the handmade wooden crate that was shipped from the G.I. stationed over there.
I would love to make a copy of that bow to get an idea how stiff it is.
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well captain wowey-pants. Go looking for a black palm, why don't you! ;D
(and here you thought I was sleeping, JW.)
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I wore out two trucks and a string of pack mules in the Black Hills looking for it. I figured any palm here would have to be a Black one becuase of the name of the hills.
Go back to your rocking chair and lap robe before your Geritol wears off! >:D
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A what-kind-of-robe?
Just keep your eye peeled to the west.
My wife actually can't figure out how many of these staves I could possibly shoot. I try not to put them all in one spot, so it only looks like a have one or two---here, and another 1 or two there, and one or two under here.
The credit card account rats me out.
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keenan, i'm here to help you, just send me your staves so you don't have to worry about how many you have, they wll be safer here ::)
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Three 6' pieces of Ocean Spray, 2 elderberry stave, lots of vine maple... & and partridge in a pear tree.
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osage, black walnut, black locust, black cherry, mulberry, white oak, red oak, hackberry, ipe, bamboo, asian honeysuckle, unknown maple, with plans to obtain some honey locust, more hackberry and osage, and one of the snakiest pieces of osage that i've personally seen >:D
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Sheesh, went out to the barn yesterday and saw I had some ERC in the rafters... :-[
Also got some down in the basement between the joists as well as some elm.
I got to get busy makin' some bows... :)
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I'm with Keenan, I know I have a problem , ;) :o ??? not sure how much I have but I do know it would be enough to keep me busy for a long long time. :)
Pappy
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This is part of my stash. ;)
(http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/9382/dscf0772i.jpg)
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Trying to limit myself to a few types of wood these days: Juniper (80%), Osage (15%), and Red Oak (5%).
I'm going to try to find good homes for all the other staves I have...
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I like the photos of your Place and your Stave Stash Druid! :)
Mr. Crafty, what kind of staves are you trying to let go of?
-gus
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I've got some elm, hickory, and hackberry. Maybe one piece each of white oak, black locust, and a few others. I can do an inventory...shoot me a PM if interested.
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Pm sent.. ;D ;D
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not enough :-(
when it comes to bow wood-enough is never enough...
already seasoned and ready to go-a few osage, and some hickory
waiting till seasoned-pile of osage, some white ash and oak
only been at this a cupla yrs,
but start getting a bit anxious if there is only one or two seasoned osage staves in the shop.
and find myself thinking of trade goods when i'm at waynes or kirks looking at their piles of yella wood.
fortunately they are both good buds, and always willing to trade
same with arrow wood/cane, as pat mentioned. thats a continuous quest as well.
can hardly keep my eyes on the road when out in the countryside.
and frustrate one of my friends to no end as when we go hiking,
always on the lookout for arrow and bow wood....feathers, bones, antlers, herbs/edibles, etc etc
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now why does every one think keenan has a problem...yes he has wood coming out of his ears...but he treats it like a fine wine...heck,if i had time and gas money i would grab him and just get one or two more sticks...LOL....its not an addiction you are saving the life of a tree..LOL...john
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But John, though I haven't actually met him, I like Keenan.Would hate to see
the lovely Lulyn kick his butt out over a few pieces of wood. I'm here for
the guy....available for loooooonnnng term storage 8) ;D
Lane
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None :( its all been made into bows or is packed up ready to move. I did keep out a nice Laburnum stave to work on, you know just in case I started suffering from withdrawl. Plus moving always means opportunity for more wood, well in my book anyways!
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This morning....probably a little egg from breakfast. :) Jawge
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;D ;D ;D ;D
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Tried to send you a PM Mr. Crafty.
But your in box is full.
I'd be interested in Black Locust.
Also on the hunt for Live Oak if you had some hiding in your stash.
White Oak and or Hackberry hold some interest for me as well.
What would you be interested in trade goods?
I do leather work.
Have some uncut turkey feathers.
I'm currently in High Gear on Sinew collecting, White Tail deer, both leg and back sinew.
Have some wood I'd trade as well but most of my stash is six months old or less.
Regards,
-gus
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Thompson, I think, mentions how good Eastern red cedar backed with hickory is. I've never tried it. Jawge
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Jackcrafty, tried to send pm also. I have a load of sinew and would be looking to trade a bunch for some straight/clean white oak or hickory.
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Hello my name is Ed.Only built 30 bows or so in last couple of years.Havin fun.Killed 4 deer so far with hedge bows.Wood I've gotten in southern Iowa here is:Hedge,black locust,red elm,mulberry,ironwood,hickory,and a friend brought a persimmon log from souuthern Mizzoo which I got three staves from.Got a lot of the others here too like hackberry,choke cherry,oaks,& walnuts.Great place to live for somebody wanting to make bows.Some of you guys really have an extended stash....LOL.I like it.
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For the longest time the only thing I could get my hands on were red oak boards from Lowes. Now the wood has started trickling in and I can't keep up with it!
In board form I have:
red oak
hickory (complete boards and backers)
cherry (ripped into belly lams)
pine heartwood (just have to try it!)
black walnut
maple
white ash
red elm
My stave collection includes:
apple, staves and billets
a couple pear branches
a couple peach branches
persimmon
hickory
That's a lot of wood to break... I mean make into bows >:D
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Wow! Lots of PM's. :o
Sorry the mailbox got full quick. I'll post what I have in the Trading Post. Please try again after I post the inventory. I'll do it tonight or tomorrow. Thanks for the interest! :)
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Red oak... from home depot :P
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hey lane,when keenans storage gets to full i know sister will give me a call....mean heck i just live right over inthe hole...john
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;D ;D ;D I've never felt so loved before. ::) >:D
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OHHH MAN,sister was right...straight to your head....LOL...
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I dont have much in my stash yet, need to get over to Keenan's when he isnt looking 8) >:D
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no juniper? ::);D
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(http://i878.photobucket.com/albums/ab346/sadiejane9/bowmaking/DSCN0615.jpg)
not all mine, and not all seasoned. collecting staves is like making bows-a never ending process.
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I dont have much in my stash yet, need to get over to Keenan's when he isnt looking 8) >:D
OHHHHHHHHH you fibbed! :o :o :o
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Osage
Iron Wood
Black Locust
Hickory
Red Oak
Hackberry
Red Elm
Black Walnut
Cypress
Eastern Red Cedar
Parsimmon
Wooly buckthorn
Pecan
And just for the record I don't have a problem I can quit any time I choose.
Ron
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a couple red oak planks 3.5ft
4 twisted maple billets
a black ash stave
cherry branch
paper birch sapling
an oollllllld small diam black spruce sapling
a crabapple branch
all 4 branch/saplings are less than 2in diam
a green Tamarak log 6ft*6in diameter
if i can add a quality osage/yew stave i think ill be set for the winter :D
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Ronnie,Ronnie, Ronnie,,,,,,,, You are in the river of DENIAL!!!! >:D
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Well it looks like the doctor is in. :o
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;D ;D ;D