Kinds of bow wood in your stash

[BowEd]

OK huisme....Here's some black locust.

[BowEd]

Closer look

[BowEd]

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.

[osage outlaw]

I prefer to store mine horizontal if I can.  I have a roll-a-way stave rack under my bench.

 

[steve b.]

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. 

[Joec123able]

Think you could spare about half of those staves Osage outlaw ??

[osage outlaw]

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.

[DLH]

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?

[BOWMAN53]

This post is just frustrating me, idk why i keep looking. Must be envy

[osage outlaw]

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.

[steve b.]

White oak
yew
vinemaple
oceanspray
hazelnut
black locust
 
and, here's (L-R)  some aspen (2), rhodedendron, hawthorn

[Josh B]

Where's the lodgepole pine Steve? Lol!  I'd try it if I had any.  Josh

[Marks]

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.

[BowEd]

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.