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Offline Tom Leemans

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #30 on: July 08, 2013, 02:30:44 pm »
osage
walnut (for flavor)
bamboo
bulletwood
more osage
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #31 on: July 08, 2013, 02:58:11 pm »
I got:

eastern red cedar
osage (1 stave left,   :o)
mulberry
hackberry
honey suckle

EDIT: Opps, didn't see it was only local woods, got rid of everything except the locals...
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #32 on: July 08, 2013, 03:21:26 pm »
Local:

Lots of Osage
Hickory
Elm
Ash
Black locust
Hackberry
ERC
HHB
Plus some experimental shrubs


Imports:

yew
crepe mertyl
Vine Maple
buckthorn
Sea grape
HHB

I want to set aside one year and only work non-osage staves.  That's going to be hard to do.
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Offline Bryce

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #33 on: July 08, 2013, 03:47:15 pm »
Quote from: Gun Doc 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

You forgot about yew and mountian maple :)
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Offline Marks

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #34 on: July 08, 2013, 03:58:37 pm »
Osage
crepe myrtle
Soon to have hackberry if I can get off my butt and go face the heat.
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Offline Josh B

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #35 on: July 08, 2013, 04:13:37 pm »
I was just listing woods that I harvested locally.  Woods from other areas include yew from Oregon
Mountain maple from Oregon
mesquite-tx
Hickories-mn mo ga
hhb-mn
Black locust-nc Il 
Flatlander yew(Western hemlock)-or
Buckthorn-IL
Juniper and Russian olive-ut
chokecherry-mt
Madrone-or
post oak-ok
musclewood and Autumn olive-mi
crepe myrtle-ms
And probably a bunch more that I'm forgetting.  Josh
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #36 on: July 08, 2013, 04:20:37 pm »
You have an unfair advantage Josh  ;)  You get to gather wood all across the country
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Offline Patches

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #37 on: July 08, 2013, 04:29:55 pm »
Osage
Hickory Shagbark and pignut)
HHB
Elm
Hackberry
Cherry
ERC
Ash
Persimmon
Sassafras
A couple mystery woods tht I am not sure what they are
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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #38 on: July 08, 2013, 04:43:08 pm »
All I've got is a few fresh vine maples, several almost dry cascara, and a fortune in what I thought was ash but might be black locust.

Anyone care to post an example of the back of a BL and ash stave?
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Offline BOWMAN53

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #39 on: July 08, 2013, 04:46:27 pm »
mmmm lets see, i have so much wood i cant remember all of them.

wait now i remember, two pieces of twisted yew, i almost forgot.
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Offline nativenoobowyer86

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #40 on: July 08, 2013, 05:00:21 pm »
I am in Northwestern Ontario Canada, Thunder Bay,  Kaministiqua river area.

Local -  Red + Sugar maple
         -  American Elm
         -  Ash, black and Pumpkin (white i think)
         - Saskatoon berry
         - cherry
         - Lilac (landscape type)
         - wild crabapple

import-  Osage
          -  yew
          - hickory
          - Hophornbeam (imported from southern ontario, across lake superior, might as well be another state)
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Offline Marks

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #41 on: July 08, 2013, 05:24:23 pm »
Quote from: BOWMAN53 on July 08, 2013, 04:46:27 pm
mmmm lets see, i have so much wood i cant remember all of them.

wait now i remember, two pieces of twisted yew, i almost forgot.

Good to see someone else in my shoes.
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Offline Poggins

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #42 on: July 08, 2013, 05:42:14 pm »
My stash is low right now , need to expand some with pecan , hackberry , persimmon , hickory, and any thing else I can find .
Right now in my stash of staves and logs are:
Lots of osage
Chittam wood
And now after yesterday's run coffee tree

We've got a good selection of bow wood here in Oklahoma.
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Offline tom sawyer

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #43 on: July 08, 2013, 06:12:38 pm »
Just came across a pair of California yew billets I traded for back in '05.  Got some really nice hedge billets that are older than that.  Haven't cut a splice in years though, I'd need to practice first.
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Offline bushboy

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Re: Kinds of bow wood in your stash
« Reply #44 on: July 08, 2013, 06:29:55 pm »
Local,wild grown hard woods include!...bur oak and green ash:-(!
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