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Offline Easternarcher

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Lemonwood on the East Coast?
« on: January 19, 2011, 02:16:39 pm »
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I'm looking at building a couple of ELB's and would like to use some lemonwood for the bellywood.
Whre can I find it long enough?

I guess it doesn't HAVE to be lemonwood, but it seems to be commonly used.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Lemonwood on the East Coast?
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2011, 02:21:26 pm »
Lemonwood can be very hard to find these days because of the Cuban imbargo. Lemonwood(Degame) is indiginous to Cuba and parts of Central America. There might be a supplier or 2 here in the US but I don't know who that would be.
   Hickory backed ipe would make a great ELB.
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Offline Easternarcher

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Re: Lemonwood on the East Coast?
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2011, 02:28:47 pm »
Quote from: Pat B on January 19, 2011, 02:21:26 pm
Lemonwood can be very hard to find these days because of the Cuban imbargo. Lemonwood(Degame) is indiginous to Cuba and parts of Central America. There might be a supplier or 2 here in the US but I don't know who that would be.
   Hickory backed ipe would make a great ELB.

I have a supplier for yellowheart and I've heard of that being used as well.  I have and purpleheart-bloodwood-paudauk etc. GOOD IPE....not so much!
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Offline bcbull

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Re: Lemonwood on the East Coast?
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2011, 02:36:47 pm »
some specitly wood suppliers can get it for ya some bowyers in england will sell ya  a stave  be ready to pay a arm and leg for it id go with osage maulberry yew ipe or somthing here befor id spend that much for lemon wood id use yew i have a few slats of it but i got it free some years ago  brock
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Offline Dauntless

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Re: Lemonwood on the East Coast?
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2011, 03:49:05 pm »
Hehe Cuban embargo.  Not that I've found any on this side of the border.

Lots of other woods you can use though.
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Offline Easternarcher

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Re: Lemonwood on the East Coast?
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2011, 04:23:28 pm »
Quote from: bcbull on January 19, 2011, 02:36:47 pm
some specitly wood suppliers can get it for ya some bowyers in england will sell ya  a stave  be ready to pay a arm and leg for it id go with osage maulberry yew ipe or somthing here befor id spend that much for lemon wood id use yew i have a few slats of it but i got it free some years ago  brock
Being from the frozen North, all these woods are at a premium here....Yew is non-existant on the EC. Osage I can ship in , but not in lengths over about 68in. The shipping is brutal to say the least, so I'll have to figure something else out.
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Offline bcbull

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Re: Lemonwood on the East Coast?
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2011, 04:26:56 pm »
bro  iv got 36 set s yew billetts  36-48"long some heartwood some w/sap i could trade ya a set or somthing if ya can get the shipping right  send me a p m if ur intreasted  brock
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