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Quote from: twisted hickory on June 15, 2013, 10:59:48 pmQuote from: Bolensgoldrush on June 15, 2013, 10:58:23 pmI live in Southern Ontario, Canada. Around the Kawartha Lakes region.[/quotIf black locust grows up there that makes a good bow as well.Nope. It sucks. I have a "National Audubon Society Field Guide to Trees" with me and it says that black locust does not even grow in Canada.Thank You!Your book is right, to a point. I live in London, Ontario and in the parks and surrounding areas have a ton of black locust trees growing here. They were introduced a very long time ago and have became pretty well established. It was planted here for railway ties and fence posts because of the rot resistant characteristics of the wood and its tenacity. I don't think it grows as far North as Kawartha lakes region.
Quote from: Bolensgoldrush on June 15, 2013, 10:58:23 pmI live in Southern Ontario, Canada. Around the Kawartha Lakes region.[/quotIf black locust grows up there that makes a good bow as well.Nope. It sucks. I have a "National Audubon Society Field Guide to Trees" with me and it says that black locust does not even grow in Canada.Thank You!
I live in Southern Ontario, Canada. Around the Kawartha Lakes region.[/quotIf black locust grows up there that makes a good bow as well.
Look for some Eastern Hophornbeam (aka ironwood). I'm pretty sure that grows in southern Ontario and it is a great bow wood. Ask Marc St. Louis, I'm pretty sure he's in Ontario. Good luck.
