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Offline toomanyknots

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Hows this look yall? (green osage lumber pictures)
« on: November 02, 2013, 02:19:42 pm »
What do yall think?







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Offline J05H

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Re: Hows this look yall? (green osage lumber pictures)
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2013, 02:23:15 pm »
Nice! Can't see much of the grain in the pics but it look great for some laminate bows. Good score.
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Offline Dances with squirrels

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Re: Hows this look yall? (green osage lumber pictures)
« Reply #2 on: November 02, 2013, 02:51:27 pm »
The second one in looks pretty decent. The farthest has a few possibilities if you can stay away from those checks. The other two seem to have some issues. Hard to tell without seeing them in person. What are their sizes?
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: Hows this look yall? (green osage lumber pictures)
« Reply #3 on: November 02, 2013, 02:59:48 pm »
Quote from: Dances with squirrels on November 02, 2013, 02:51:27 pm
The second one in looks pretty decent. The farthest has a few possibilities if you can stay away from those checks. The other two seem to have some issues. Hard to tell without seeing them in person. What are their sizes?

No idea, these are the pictures the guy sent me,  ;D.
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 the upper part is pressed down,
 the lower part is raised up,
 the part that has too much is reduced,
 the part that has too little is increased."

- Tao Te Ching, 77, A new translation by Victor H. Mair

Offline Pat B

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Re: Hows this look yall? (green osage lumber pictures)
« Reply #4 on: November 02, 2013, 03:08:14 pm »
I would not buy sawn lumber sight unseen. The chance of too many problems.
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: Hows this look yall? (green osage lumber pictures)
« Reply #5 on: November 02, 2013, 03:12:50 pm »
Quote from: Pat B on November 02, 2013, 03:08:14 pm
I would not buy sawn lumber sight unseen. The chance of too many problems.

Well my plan is to drive down and look at it first, it is a drive though, about 230 miles round trip.
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 the upper part is pressed down,
 the lower part is raised up,
 the part that has too much is reduced,
 the part that has too little is increased."

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Offline Joec123able

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Re: Hows this look yall? (green osage lumber pictures)
« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2013, 04:20:36 pm »
Can we get a really good pic of the grain close up because from those pics that kinda looks like mulberry but need a closer pic to really tell
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: Hows this look yall? (green osage lumber pictures)
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2013, 05:30:16 pm »
Quote from: Joec123able on November 02, 2013, 04:20:36 pm
Can we get a really good pic of the grain close up because from those pics that kinda looks like mulberry but need a closer pic to really tell

I don't think so, these are not my pictures, a lumber dealer took these pictures for me and sent them to my email ya see. And I am sure no big dealer would sell mulberry as osage, the woods are very easy to tell apart.
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 the lower part is raised up,
 the part that has too much is reduced,
 the part that has too little is increased."

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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: Hows this look yall? (green osage lumber pictures)
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2013, 09:19:14 pm »
Welp, apparently it was all bought. Oh well.  :'(
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 the upper part is pressed down,
 the lower part is raised up,
 the part that has too much is reduced,
 the part that has too little is increased."

- Tao Te Ching, 77, A new translation by Victor H. Mair

Offline bushboy

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Re: Hows this look yall? (green osage lumber pictures)
« Reply #9 on: November 02, 2013, 10:48:53 pm »
its green1!!!!!!!!!!! ???









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Re: Hows this look yall? (green osage lumber pictures)
« Reply #10 on: November 03, 2013, 08:08:23 am »
That would've been a waste of money to drive out that far for that IMO...the two on the left have some nasty damage,and the two on the right have some pretty severe grain violation where the tree had a risen area from a knot and it was sawed thru it....ya might've been able to get a few bows by using half of the boards n splicing em..maybe...but since you'd have to drive that far and pay for the wood? NO WAY JOSE!!!
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