DV IN MN & BJ.......Here's some prepared hoops for hooping future beavers.If you look close you'll see a 1/2" rerod hoop I used wrapping the fresh willow saplings onto it to dry to get the almost perfect round shape.I even hooped a woodchuck once.An egg shaped hoop just tying the ends of the sapling at a 45 degree usually was the way it was done in the old days I'm sure.After making these I went on a terror and made many different sized hoops out of willow.