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Information and Resources => Trading Post => Topic started by: gstoneberg on June 29, 2011, 12:29:15 pm

Title: Osage billets or short bow staves
Post by: gstoneberg on June 29, 2011, 12:29:15 pm
I have 2 sets of billets with sapwood removed but not to a growth ring.  The first set are 51" long, suitable for short bows, and are a vertical set of sisters.  The top one is wider than the bottom one. One end is recurved.  Both have wind checks, but there's enough good wood for a bow limb or a bendy-handled shorty.  I'll show those in the pictures.  I will separate these if somebody just wants a bendy-handle short stave.

(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6048/5883760043_2e962a7026_z.jpg)
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6043/5883760025_955b380705_z.jpg)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5112/5883760005_8ec7bd26c9_z.jpg)

The other set are 40" long, adjacent sisters, one with a big knot at the end (wish I'd have left a couple more inches of wood beyond that knot).  Not to a growth ring yet, but the sapwood has been removed.

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5035/5883759979_dff0bee6f7_z.jpg)

I have 2 other sets of sister billets in the shop which I can clean up if there's interest.  They have more character.

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5074/5884325286_9f779679ba_z.jpg)

I need pine pitch the worst; then arrow shaft material, or even completed arrows for a 50# or 60# selfbow. 

George
Title: Re: Osage billets or short bow staves
Post by: Bow Nut on June 29, 2011, 12:52:07 pm
I have about a pound of pine pitch but it is straight from trees not store bough still a little dirty have no melted and cleaned it out yet and I have some shaft material mostly port orford cedar and some tonkin can I would rather trade the pitch
Title: Re: Osage billets or short bow staves
Post by: gstoneberg on June 29, 2011, 01:29:34 pm
PM sent.

George
Title: Re: Osage billets or short bow staves
Post by: soy on July 15, 2011, 02:35:36 am
Need sister billits pm sent :D
Title: Re: Osage billets or short bow staves
Post by: gstoneberg on July 15, 2011, 02:49:27 am
PM sent.
Title: Re: Osage billets or short bow staves
Post by: Stingray45 on July 18, 2011, 02:50:32 pm
PM sent.