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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Shondy55 on November 28, 2011, 05:06:26 pm

Title: were to look?
Post by: Shondy55 on November 28, 2011, 05:06:26 pm

hey guys, i live right by a lowes and the carry red oak boards but thats about it for the bow woods....were could i find some hickory or maple?? i live in the kc metro area

Title: Re: were to look?
Post by: blackhawk on November 28, 2011, 05:20:18 pm

Google is your friend...find a local lumber store or mill...but better yet first go take a drive out to some farm country with osage hedgerows and ask permission to cut some...and while your osage seasons go get your hickory and maple boards to play with and get you ready for some real wood...lol ;)

Title: Re: were to look?
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on November 28, 2011, 05:23:42 pm

Menards carries it up here in Michigan.

Title: Re: were to look?
Post by: Josh B on November 28, 2011, 05:38:29 pm

I wish you would have posted this last night.  I'm heading that way and could have brought you some seasoned staves.  Next time I'm at home and going to be headed that way, I will PM you, if you're interested.  I have lots of walnut, white mulberry, red elm, and Osage just to name a few.  They are staves not boards though.    Josh

Title: Re: were to look?
Post by: bubby on November 28, 2011, 05:42:07 pm

call a local cabinet builder and ask for the name of his supplier, Bub

Title: Re: were to look?
Post by: wagnerwood on November 28, 2011, 08:29:42 pm

I was just to metro hardwoods in Independence last week.  They had a good selection of various boards that would work.

Title: Re: were to look?
Post by: Shondy55 on November 28, 2011, 09:26:11 pm

thanks guys that helped alot

Title: Re: were to look?
Post by: Ifrit617 on November 28, 2011, 09:55:17 pm

based on your other post i would take a real close look at your own back yard....  >:D >:D

Jon

Title: Re: were to look?
Post by: George Tsoukalas on November 29, 2011, 11:55:48 am

Remember the 3 most important things in a board destined to be a bow. Grain, grain and grain. Jawge
http://georgeandjoni.home.comcast.net/~georgeandjoni/