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Offline Thesquirrelslinger

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #45 on: July 08, 2013, 06:33:19 pm »
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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Offline bushboy

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #46 on: July 08, 2013, 06:35:18 pm »
Local,wild grown hard woods!...burr oak and green ash :-(!
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Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #47 on: July 08, 2013, 07:03:50 pm »
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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Offline SLIMBOB

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #48 on: July 08, 2013, 08:11:00 pm »
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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Offline Badly Bent

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #49 on: July 08, 2013, 09:27:47 pm »
Osage (unseasoned)
Black Locust (unseasoned)
Buckthorn
Black Walnut
Elm
Hackberry
Ash
and maybe a couple others buried in there somewhere
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Offline Weylin

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #50 on: July 08, 2013, 10:38:10 pm »
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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Offline DarkSoul

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #51 on: July 09, 2013, 06:27:59 am »
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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Offline Holten101

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #52 on: July 09, 2013, 06:56:03 am »
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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Offline Japbow

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #53 on: July 09, 2013, 10:15:38 am »

　　　　　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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Offline tom sawyer

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #54 on: July 09, 2013, 10:21:33 am »
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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Offline doulosparachristos

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #55 on: July 09, 2013, 10:47:05 am »
yew
cascara
vine maple
white oak and mulberry
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Offline steelslinger

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #56 on: July 09, 2013, 11:09:16 am »
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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Offline BowEd

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #57 on: July 09, 2013, 01:01:51 pm »
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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Offline dmenzies1950

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #58 on: July 09, 2013, 02:23:38 pm »
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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Offline Zion

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #59 on: July 09, 2013, 02:28:51 pm »
Serviceberry
Ocean Spray
Mountain Maple
Chinese Elm
Apple
Chokecherry
Hawthorn





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