Learning Materials

[Yooper Bowyer]

Send me a PM, I may have some stuff good enough.

[scp]

[....  Can't find decent, affordable staves to save my life, even on the PA forum!

Check out local sawmills for fresh cut lumbers or even whole logs. Some might even deliver. 

[willie]

That's the one I'm having a hard time with.    Any help?    But mostly need some staves to scrape on.

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=37895.0

[Allyn T]

...and a lot of cheap staves.

Hey man you pay for shipping I'll send you some hickory. It has bark on still was cut February 2020

That's the one I'm having a hard time with.  Can't find decent, affordable staves to save my life, even on the PA forum!  All the natural wood around here needs backed, but I really want to do a few more self bows to get my head around tillering before I try sinew.  Any help?

I've about got TBB 1 and 2 memorized.  Need to get 3 and 4.  But mostly need some staves to scrape on.

[WhistlingBadger]

Thanks, guys.  I'll be in touch.

Willie, I've been wanting to try chokecherry.  I'd have a hard time finding a straight one around here, though.  I'd rather get better at the whole process before I try a knotty, crooked piece of chokecherry.  I'll definitely keep my eyes out, though.

Sorry for the thread jack.

[DSP1]

Thank you all for the advice and recommendations, it is greatly appreciated. Unfortunately I am going to have to wait until the building is up before starting on some bows since I currently have absolutely nowhere to work on anything. Even in the house, the rooms that aren't half torn apart are full of tools and supplies. In the meantime I figure I'll read/watch as much as I can and gather useful/needed tools that I don't currently have.