Aries: Where you from? I live straight south of OJAM (actually closer to Ripley than Stillwater) about 25 miles between Carney and Chandler.
I went to OJAM for the first time last year and was enthralled the whole time. I just wondered around and soaked it all in. Next year I plan on going and working on bows, shoot the course, making arrows, basically do it all. May even camp out just for fun.
Okie1, and The Singing Bowyer were both there last year as are several others here on the board. I think Cowboy even came up from Texas two years ago. Okie is from the Luther area and Bowyer is from the Shawnee area. We even got together at Okie's place one weekend to make some shavings, eat some backstrap and fling some arrows. All great guys.
As far as wood trades are concerned, I'd say that just about any configuration would do well. Like I said, I watched a lot of yellow dust flying around. Other stuff was there for sure, but the Sage was the predominant wood of choice.
I don't know yet if they have the next JAM site up and running yet. They had to do a last minute adjustment last year when the first dates conflicted with Easter. It was still a great event from my perspective.
Mike