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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: yazoo on March 31, 2010, 06:10:58 pm

Title: hickory blanks
Post by: yazoo on March 31, 2010, 06:10:58 pm

(http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b34/m5555/101_1608.jpg)

Title: Re: hickory blanks
Post by: Josh on March 31, 2010, 06:16:11 pm

Couldn't see the pic in the link.  Here it is.  Are you bringing these to the classic?   :)

Title: Re: hickory blanks
Post by: yazoo on March 31, 2010, 06:20:08 pm

my back was hurting from spllitting osage, so I decided to make some hickory blanks,,37hickory and 15 osage in three days,, now my arms and back hurt,,,so I am going fishing tomorrow,,I have got clients comming for next two weeks for turkey hunts,will be couple weeks be fore I can make more bows,, I need the rest,,

Title: Re: hickory blanks
Post by: Josh on March 31, 2010, 06:25:51 pm

You are a stave-making machine man!  It is definitely time to take some time off.  Hope you catch a bunch of fish!  See ya at the Classic!   :)

Title: Re: hickory blanks
Post by: Lombard on March 31, 2010, 09:32:24 pm

Mike, it looks like you are getting prepared for a bow making bonanza. Don't know if I can make the Classic in Tennessee, but plan to be at the Howard Hill Shoot in June.

Title: Re: hickory blanks
Post by: George Tsoukalas on March 31, 2010, 10:40:59 pm

Hickory and osage! You can't beat it. That's some good stuff there.  Jawge

Title: Re: hickory blanks
Post by: yazoo on March 31, 2010, 11:11:09 pm

yea they are what I like in a bow wood,,hard to break,,I think the hickory is tougher than osage,,I have got some 5 year old hickory,and its hard as a rock,,

Title: Re: hickory blanks
Post by: Dean Marlow on April 01, 2010, 08:25:39 am

Yazoo  nice Hickory blanks. I agree with you about Hickory being a tough wood. I am working more with Hickory than I used to. A nice straight grained Hickory stave is a pleasure to work with. I like the smell of Hickory when you heat it up. Dean

Title: Re: hickory blanks
Post by: yazoo on April 01, 2010, 12:30:29 pm

I went back to working osage this morning.had to pospone fishing,,a guy called  last nite and said he had a farm of osage he wants to sell,,only 15min from my house,,never cut any that close to home,,I noticed I had a band saw blade that would not cut hickory and I put a osage stave to it it cut like butter,, ???

Title: Re: hickory blanks
Post by: HatchA on April 01, 2010, 05:06:37 pm

Quote from: yazoo on March 31, 2010, 11:11:09 pm

I have got some 5 year old hickory,and its hard as a rock,,

Is that 5 years seasoned/cured?

And that was great luck having some work turn up only 15 min's from you :)

We'll expect another pic of 30 or 40 Osage staves in a while... ;)

Title: Re: hickory blanks
Post by: okiecountryboy on April 01, 2010, 11:20:24 pm

Wow
I can't quit droolin.
And rest? You need rest and then some!
YOU ARE A MACHINE!! :o
If there are any of those you just can't stand (you know,,agve you a splinter or somthin) let me know!! ;D ::) ;D >:D

Ron

Title: Re: hickory blanks
Post by: Pappy on April 02, 2010, 07:25:03 am

Nice haul Mike, I just thought I had wood. ;) :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: hickory blanks
Post by: Hrothgar on April 03, 2010, 08:50:53 am

I admire your industry. Seems like more and more I find myself walking through the woods locating good trees and potential staves, and next year they are still growing right where I left 'em.