how to you make astave from a fulltree? cut? split? 1/4 saw?

[Rcdeer]

lol..if it was osage the twist be cool  ...not sure about that one,,pretty twisted,,,that's the hornbeam.. stringy too...
not at all sure what that'll do  ..

[Joec123able]

The twist will be fine you'll just have to correct it which I hate correcting twist

[Rcdeer]

I'm not so good at correctin stuff...but it Screams  Start With Me!...

[dbb]

I actually had a stave worse than that for my second or third try at makin a bow.
I got it straight enough using steam , It failed,but that was because my tillering skill sucked,
But i learned a lot from that one so go for it 

[Buckeye Guy]

Get the bark off and seal the back and ends with shellac !
Lay out a bow on the back with a pencil and cut just outside of the lines
Then reduce the belly a bit and wait on it to dry !
Twist will come out later when we heat it up
If you don't have some sort of form for straitening make one while your wood is drying !
Have fun !!

[Rcdeer]

not lookin good,,(from the untrained eye) bark off, ends & back sealed.....but sooooo stringy!...that normal for hop hornbeam? or I cut wrong time of year?

[JW_Halverson]

I think you are fine, stringy wood often makes good bows!  And as for twist, pick up an inexpensive heat gun from the paint and stain section from the hardware store and we'll walk you thru straightening out any kinks.  Any species of ironwood you can find on this planet responds to heat very well.  Or so Marc St Louis has proven time and again.

If you have the patience to feed and care for a flinchrock rifle, you got the necessaries for makin' a bow from a corkscrewed ironwood stave!  I speak from Colerain B weight swamped button rifled barrelled experience!  Hoowah!

[Rcdeer]

thank you JW!!,,glad I asked..cause first thought was firewood..!  we'll keep it....., dryin now.then we'll scrape away anything that ain't bow,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,flintlock?  I wasn't this scared when I seen them!