Opinions wanted on Stave...

[El Destructo]

you talking about Texas Huisache ?   It;s a member of the Mimosa Family...and I didn't think that it was good for anything but burning for Firewood....grows way too fast to be too strong...Good luck and lets see some Bow from it....if Dana can build one from Tag Alder...you can too from Acacia

[Tombow]

Destructo - I was like you, everyone HATES Ouisache (thorns). BUT, when it grows into a tree, it is the hardest, heaviest wood you can imagine and nearly unbreakable. Doesn't care where the rings are either... I'm tinkering with some now. 

[aguilia]

In my research of Texas Native tribes, I read somewhere that mesquite root was used for bows?

Growing up in San Antonio, Texas, I met many old residents of the San Antonio Indian missions. I remember asking one of them what wood was used to make a bow. He stated that you would use huisache wood after it had been smoked and dried.................