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Offline BowEd

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #15 on: July 08, 2013, 11:52:24 am »
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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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #16 on: July 08, 2013, 11:55:39 am »
Oh we got wild game farms raising horn here too
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Offline Olanigw (Pekane)

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #17 on: July 08, 2013, 11:56:35 am »
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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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #18 on: July 08, 2013, 11:59:28 am »
How many are local wood PD?

8-9 of them maybe?
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #19 on: July 08, 2013, 12:04:54 pm »
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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Offline PrimitiveTim

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #20 on: July 08, 2013, 12:10:31 pm »
I'm running low!

Mulberry
Citrus
hackberry
sweetgum

yikes I need to get a cuttin'
Florida to Kwajalein to Turkey and back in Florida again.  Good to be home but man was that an adventure!

Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #21 on: July 08, 2013, 12:14:13 pm »
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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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #22 on: July 08, 2013, 12:20:06 pm »
Osage
Hickory
White ash
Hackberry
Mulberry
White oak
Black locust

Offline okie64

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #23 on: July 08, 2013, 12:29:07 pm »
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

Offline rossfactor

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #24 on: July 08, 2013, 12:33:21 pm »
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.


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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #25 on: July 08, 2013, 12:36:50 pm »
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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Offline Joec123able

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #26 on: July 08, 2013, 12:52:47 pm »
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
I like osage

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #27 on: July 08, 2013, 02:10:25 pm »
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
Humboldt County CA.

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #28 on: July 08, 2013, 02:22:27 pm »
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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Offline Josh B

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #29 on: July 08, 2013, 02:26:49 pm »
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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