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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Lee Lobbestael on November 11, 2010, 12:34:03 pm

Title: Lemonwood
Post by: Lee Lobbestael on November 11, 2010, 12:34:03 pm

Anyone no where I could come up with a lemonwood stave? Pretty sure there are no lemon trees im Michigan that I would have access to

Title: Re: Lemonwood
Post by: Cacatch on November 11, 2010, 01:14:48 pm

Is "lemonwood" just wood from a lemon fruit tree?

Title: Re: Lemonwood
Post by: Bevan R. on November 11, 2010, 01:42:31 pm

'True' lemonwood (degame) grows in Cuba and is not importable anymore from there. If you really want some, I have seen staves for sale from places in England, but you will pay allot for it. There is some wood called 'lemonwood' coming from some of the South & Central America countries.

Title: Re: Lemonwood
Post by: snag on November 11, 2010, 02:08:05 pm

There appears to be some that comes out of New Zealand and Argentina too.  But like Acacia there are probably differing types and thus differing qualities.

Title: Re: Lemonwood
Post by: mullet on November 11, 2010, 06:46:25 pm

 I've got a lemon tree in my back yard, loaded down with lemons. ;D

Title: Re: Lemonwood
Post by: snag on November 11, 2010, 07:12:12 pm

I found a place that has 1"X4" boards of lemonwood....no staves. I would think it would be really hard to find a stave of this stuff.

Title: Re: Lemonwood
Post by: Lee Lobbestael on November 11, 2010, 08:35:26 pm

Mullet I'm coming over late some night with an axe! ;D

Title: Re: Lemonwood
Post by: avcase on November 11, 2010, 10:00:01 pm

Gilmer hardwoods here in Portland often has lemonwood bow staves for sale. Ask for Jim. 
http://www.gilmerwood.com/ (http://www.gilmerwood.com/)

 Alan

Title: Re: Lemonwood
Post by: hillbilly61 on November 11, 2010, 10:02:58 pm

I smell a stealth mission comming up 8). Now it'll be my luck the lemons will really come up missing :o

Title: Re: Lemonwood
Post by: HoBow on November 11, 2010, 10:03:13 pm

Not sure, but I don't think the fruit tree is the same lemonwood popular with bowyers. ???

Title: Re: Lemonwood
Post by: mullet on November 11, 2010, 10:07:59 pm

 Jeff, It's not. Lemonwood is not the same as the fruit tree. If you want the fruit, lemon, I can get you plenty.

Title: Re: Lemonwood
Post by: HoBow on November 11, 2010, 10:19:32 pm

I picked some lemons in Greece once that were as big as cantalopes, sweet as oranges and sour like a lemon. it made the best lemonade!   You ever harvested a limb to experiment with?  You get satsumas down that way Eddie?  They should be coming into ripe about now. 

Title: Re: Lemonwood
Post by: mullet on November 11, 2010, 10:27:39 pm

 The lemon you were talking about sounds like a Ponderosa, loved to eat them. The satsuma's and Sun Sweets won't get ripe till just before Christmas.

 Wild oranges, and other citrus trees make good bows. You just treat them like white wood, which they are. The wild or sour orange is the best. You find them back in the woods growing tall and straight.