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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: BowEd on July 08, 2013, 11:22:39 am
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I'm gonna open up a little can of worms and ask how many different types of wood per state you've got in your stash.There is different kinds out there but not in my stash.
Here's mine:All of these are local wood except the winged elm.I'm in Iowa.
Osage
Hickory
Black Locust
Ironwood
Elm[Red&Winged]
Cherry
Kenticky Coffee Tree
Yew[Irish]
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Osage
Osage
Osage
Hickory
Elms
yew
crepe mertyl
ocean spray
erc
HHB
ash
sassafras
buckthorn
mulberry
black locust
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No fair stating one more than once.PD.
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How many are local wood PD?
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Yew
Elder
Hawthorn
Laburnum
Maple
Hornbeam
Ash
must be some Hazel in there somewhere, else I'll pop over the woods and cut some ;)
Osage
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Not much, but I do have some:
Hickory
Mulberry
Black Locust
ERC
Grady
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Arkansas has got a lot of good wood.
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I've got to admit though that the largest count on my staves is osage PD.
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Lots of buckthorn
black locust
HHB
white ash
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Maybe some trades through the mail can be gotten from this ya never know.
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Ash/Hickory/Hackberry/Winged elm/Black Walnut/ERC//Black Locus /Osage. All off my farm except the Osage,not a stick of it on my place. :) I trade for it or cut it up on the KY. line. :) I also have Yew/ Vine maple/maple and assorted outher wood in my stash but not from around me. :)
Pappy
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yew
ocean spray (iron wood)
vine maple
Ly lack
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Ones' that are local that I don't have here in the shed are:
Mulberry
Ash
Hackberry
ERC
Sycamore
I think that's about 15 or so different kinds here in Iowa and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few maybe.
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Let's see...I have some OSAGE...more OSAGE...n then another pile of OSAGE...and....
Black locust
Yew
Eastern Hophornbeam
Flowering Dogwood
White Oak
Red Oak
White Ash
Hickory
European Buckthorn
Mulberry
Sassafras
Mountain Laurel
Downy Serviceberry
Crepe Myrtle
Chokecherry
Eastern Red Cedar
Elm
Hackberry
Black Walnut
N I'm sure im forgetting at least one(n maybe a couple more) as I'm not home right now..and I know I've used other woods that are not on that list,I just don't have em in stock right now....yeah....I'm an admitted wood whore >:D
Did I forget to mention OSAGE ;) ;D
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We've got lilac and honeysuckle too if you can find one big enough.
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Man I forgot the oaks.We got a bunch here too.I'm already seeing there's got to be over 20 different kinds of wood here in Iowa.
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Oh we got wild game farms raising horn here too
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Herm...
Shagbark hickory
White oak
Red Oak
White Ash
Black Ash
Sugar Maple
Hophornbeam
buckthorn
Black Locust
Honey Locust
American Elm
Eastern Red Cedar
Black Cherry
Chokecherry
Walnut
All just waiting to be cut
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How many are local wood PD?
8-9 of them maybe?
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I'm sure the western boys are gonna have a long list.I'll have to see if I can make some personal messages for some of these out of state woods in trade in the future.
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I'm running low!
Mulberry
Citrus
hackberry
sweetgum
yikes I need to get a cuttin'
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Local:
Yew
Oregon ash
Serviceberry
Hawthorn
white oak
ocean spray
vine maple
Pacific Rhododendron
Apple (gravenstein)
Juniper
big leaf maple
black locust
hazel
Chinquapin
Cherry
cascara
Sitka spruce
Not local:
osage
hickory
ERC
white ash
Lots more I need to add the list.
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Osage
Hickory
White ash
Hackberry
Mulberry
White oak
Black locust
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Local stuff:
Osage
Black locust
Mulberry
Hickory
Ash
Erc
Winged elm
American elm
Pecan
Persimmon
Hackberry
Post oak
Blackjack oak
Not local stuff: chokecherry, juniper
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Plum
Yew
Osage
Live Oak
Apple
Choke Cherry
Brazilian Cherry
Ocean Spray
Water Birch (we'll see if it turns out)
Cascara
I'm fresh out of VM, but usually have some stashed as well.
Gabe
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Yew
Yew
Yew
Yew
And I have a few more yew ;)
Lemonwood
Vinemaple
Purple leaf plum
Klamath plum
Cascara
Red Elm
Pacific dogwood
Pacific rhododendron
Western juniper
Pacific crabapple
Sitka spruce
ERC
Oceanspray
Oregon white oak
Hazelnut
Red osier dogwood
And a couple pieces of osage.
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Osage
Osage
Osage
Osage
Osage
Osage
Osage
Black walnut
Osage
Osage
Osage
Osage
Osage
Hackberry
Osage
Osage
Osage
Hickory
Osage
Osage
Osage
Osage
Honey locust
Thts about it
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Hey Bryce,
What'ya planning with the Sitka Spruce....?
I've been thinking about it a lot as well... super light, but very strong. Might make good siyahs or outer limb laminations.
Gabe
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Hey Bryce,
What'ya planning with the Sitka Spruce....?
I've been thinking about it a lot as well... super light, but very strong. Might make good siyahs or outer limb laminations.
Gabe
It's awesome compression wood. I've seen self bows in museums made of Sitka spruce and black spruce.
My plans for it is a short sinew backed recurve.
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Well lets see... local woods
Osage
Red elm
Black locust
Honey locust
Hackberry
red osier
alternate leaf dogwood
walnut
Bur oak
Honeysuckle
Sand plum
ERC
Green ash
Mulberry
And a few others I'm sure. Josh
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osage
walnut (for flavor)
bamboo
bulletwood
more osage
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I got:
eastern red cedar
osage (1 stave left, :o)
mulberry
hackberry
honey suckle
EDIT: Opps, didn't see it was only local woods, got rid of everything except the locals...
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Local:
Lots of Osage
Hickory
Elm
Ash
Black locust
Hackberry
ERC
HHB
Plus some experimental shrubs
Imports:
yew
crepe mertyl
Vine Maple
buckthorn
Sea grape
HHB
I want to set aside one year and only work non-osage staves. That's going to be hard to do.
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Well lets see... local woods
Osage
Red elm
Black locust
Honey locust
Hackberry
red osier
alternate leaf dogwood
walnut
Bur oak
Honeysuckle
Sand plum
ERC
Green ash
Mulberry
And a few others I'm sure. Josh
You forgot about yew and mountian maple :)
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Osage
crepe myrtle
Soon to have hackberry if I can get off my butt and go face the heat.
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I was just listing woods that I harvested locally. Woods from other areas include yew from Oregon
Mountain maple from Oregon
mesquite-tx
Hickories-mn mo ga
hhb-mn
Black locust-nc Il
Flatlander yew(Western hemlock)-or
Buckthorn-IL
Juniper and Russian olive-ut
chokecherry-mt
Madrone-or
post oak-ok
musclewood and Autumn olive-mi
crepe myrtle-ms
And probably a bunch more that I'm forgetting. Josh
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You have an unfair advantage Josh ;) You get to gather wood all across the country
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Osage
Hickory Shagbark and pignut)
HHB
Elm
Hackberry
Cherry
ERC
Ash
Persimmon
Sassafras
A couple mystery woods tht I am not sure what they are
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All I've got is a few fresh vine maples, several almost dry cascara, and a fortune in what I thought was ash but might be black locust.
Anyone care to post an example of the back of a BL and ash stave?
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mmmm lets see, i have so much wood i cant remember all of them.
wait now i remember, two pieces of twisted yew, i almost forgot.
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I am in Northwestern Ontario Canada, Thunder Bay, Kaministiqua river area.
Local - Red + Sugar maple
- American Elm
- Ash, black and Pumpkin (white i think)
- Saskatoon berry
- cherry
- Lilac (landscape type)
- wild crabapple
import- Osage
- yew
- hickory
- Hophornbeam (imported from southern ontario, across lake superior, might as well be another state)
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mmmm lets see, i have so much wood i cant remember all of them.
wait now i remember, two pieces of twisted yew, i almost forgot.
Good to see someone else in my shoes.
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My stash is low right now , need to expand some with pecan , hackberry , persimmon , hickory, and any thing else I can find .
Right now in my stash of staves and logs are:
Lots of osage
Chittam wood
And now after yesterday's run coffee tree
We've got a good selection of bow wood here in Oklahoma.
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Just came across a pair of California yew billets I traded for back in '05. Got some really nice hedge billets that are older than that. Haven't cut a splice in years though, I'd need to practice first.
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Local,wild grown hard woods include!...bur oak and green ash:-(!
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Black locust(not cured)
Honey locust(not cured)
Ash
elm
oak(not cured)
Some willow...
And others. I want to cut some hackberry and hickory..
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Local,wild grown hard woods!...burr oak and green ash :-(!
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Cut, split and ready to work;
osage, lots and lots of osage
hickory
dogwood
yew
mulbery
Standing in my little 4 acre woodlot;
Hop Hornbeam
red and white oak
persimmon
lots of hickory
elm
walnut
cherry
hackberry
ERC
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Osage (local)
Pecan (local)
Elm (North Texas)
Mulberry (North Texas)
Hackberry (local)
ERC (board, dunno)
Black Cherry (local)
Maple (Kansas)
Ipe (board, dunno)
Texas Mountain Laurel (Sophora) (local)
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Osage (unseasoned)
Black Locust (unseasoned)
Buckthorn
Black Walnut
Elm
Hackberry
Ash
and maybe a couple others buried in there somewhere
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I've got yew, vine maple, ocean spray and a little bit of osage. Can't really think of anything else that I'd need.
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In staves: (all local)
English Yew
English Yew
Ash
Red oak
Elm
Black locust
Dogwood (Cornus mas)
Rowan (mountain-ash)
In boards:
Ipé
Bamboo
Ash
White oak lams
Hickory lams
Walnut lams
Cherry lams
and a load of exotic scraps and small boards for handles and tipoverlays.
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I have local wood only:
Staves:
Elm, wych
Hazle
Ash
Hawthorn
Rowan
Yew
Fieldmaple
Norway maple
Prune (Prunus domestica)
Chokecherry (Prunus Padus)
Elder
Billets:
Laburnum
Yew
Oh....damn it...I do have one "none-local" stave of Juniper I had to drive 100 km to cut down:-)
Were wood eating grubs to infest my stash I wouldn't shed a tear, if they ate all but my Wych Elm and my Laburnum.
Cheers
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Ah! Looks like I'm a little late on this one.
Anyway, here goes....
I'm in Kofu, Japan and the local woods I
have are:
Japanese Yew
Mulberry
Black Locust
Maple
Cherry
Persimmon
Pretty solid, and some others that surely exist
that I've yet to discover. Sadly though, in spite
of being overpopulated with deer and wild
piggies, bowhunting is illegal here in Japan!
Somebody's gotta remedy that nonsense.
Japbow.
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Had a friend who came by to borrow my wood splitter, he brought a board of freshly cut black locust 3/4" thick, 4" wide and 12' long. Cut it in half should get three or four belly slats for a boo-backed bow out of it.
Lots of stuff in my stave stash, and lots of billets too.
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yew
cascara
vine maple
white oak and mulberry
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Yew
Vine maple
Ocean spray
Cascara
Madrone
Ash
I have a couple pieces of this yellow stuff in the corner, but I'm not sure what to do with it yet. >:D
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Man that's a lot of different kinds of wood some of you guys have.I'm gonna refer to this thread later on to maybe make a trade with some of you guys if that's ok.The ones that kinda tickle my fancy are maybe purple leaf plum right now.I've got a friend going west to hunt this fall and says he's seen some kind of maple up there in the mountains.I suppose mountain maple?He might bring back some of that for me.Probably slow growing fine ringed stuff.I can get that persimmon just south of me in Missouri.None here in Iowa though.Geeez so many woods out there to try,but that's what I like about this primitive bow making.
I'll get a picture of the black locust for ya [huisme] with the bark on and off.To recognize that stuff for sure in the woods is that in the spring it has whiteish type blooms in clusters.Usually standing pretty straight and tall.It can get from a sapling to an old one being a foot and a half thick at the trunk.Where I'm at here it's the next best thing to be used for fence posts other than hedge for lasting a long time in the ground without rotting.
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Let's see;
yew
vine maple
ocean spray
pacific nine bark
choke cherry
cascara
douglas maple
wild cherry
osage
That's about it!
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Serviceberry
Ocean Spray
Mountain Maple
Chinese Elm
Apple
Chokecherry
Hawthorn
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OK huisme....Here's some black locust.
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Closer look
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Black locust will have a sort of greenish brown color to it.OK some stave porn here.Here's a pic of the way I store mine.This is about half of them.The other half are on saw horses.All horizontally.Maybe does'nt make a diff to everyone but to me it does.
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I prefer to store mine horizontal if I can. I have a roll-a-way stave rack under my bench.
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC14477.jpg)
(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/SDC14479.jpg)
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Osage Outlaw,
I'm a fire inspector and that looks like a hazard to me. I'd feel alot better if you sent all that to me. :)
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Think you could spare about half of those staves Osage outlaw ??
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I'm not trying to advertise, just showing my storage solution. I have a small work area and I have to get creative with my stave storage.
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Wow Clint looks like your hoarding osage for the apocalypse. I noticed 2011 on a lot of them most of that come from the monster tree?
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This post is just frustrating me, idk why i keep looking. Must be envy
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Wow Clint looks like your hoarding osage for the apocalypse. I noticed 2011 on a lot of them most of that come from the monster tree?
All of them in the picture did.
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White oak
yew
vinemaple
oceanspray
hazelnut
black locust
and, here's (L-R) some aspen (2), rhodedendron, hawthorn
(http://)
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Where's the lodgepole pine Steve? Lol! I'd try it if I had any. Josh
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Osage
crepe myrtle
Soon to have hackberry if I can get off my butt and go face the heat.
I need to add Hackberry to my list now. I finally went and got some.
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WOW OO that's a pile of prepped hedge there.You don't call yourself the osage outlaw for nothing.....LOL.I want to thank everyone for playing along with my request about the wood stashes around the country.I can see there are woods stated I've never even heard of.So now when someone wants to know whether a wood is bow worthy I'd say it should be able to be answered.The thing to do with new types of wood is to make it wide enough and long enough from the beginning and let the wood tell you what it wants to be.Personally I don't think I'll live long enough to experiment with em all.If I tried I'd have to build another storage room or something to house em all.I'll give it the college try though.I'm kinda stuck in this sinewing mode right now with this horn bow I'm trying to build but this will pass in time too.Like Will H said once this is'nt primitive archery any more it's almost classical archery.This site sure shows some beautys on here.