Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: wizardgoat on March 05, 2014, 02:11:17 pm
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A bowyer friend is going to Cuba this weekend for a couple weeks.
We know theres lots of degame there, having trouble tracking down
a website or any info at all.
Has anyone aquired lemonwood in Cuba and
could point us in the right direction?
I know this is a long shot!
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I don't think Cuba lets tourists go wandering off on wood harvesting excursions. I really doubt lumber has the same importance it had when there was demand and no embargo.
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I more meant if anyone in the past has gotten
already harvested lemonwood from a dealer in Cuba.
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Nobody in the US has gotten anything(legally) from Cuba since the embargo began in the 1960's.
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Funny how the politicians are always smoking cuban cigars. You ever smoke any of those Pat?
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Pretty sure you can bring back cigars for your own use after making a trip there.
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If you're Canadian you can!! ;) I could bring you guys back some if you want... ooops... can I say that?
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If you're Canadian you can!! ;) I could bring you guys back some if you want... ooops... can I say that?
I think it's fine as long as you don't post an unauthorized link to the website you intend to sell said cigars from! :o ::) 8)
OneBow
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If you're Canadian you can!! ;) I could bring you guys back some if you want... ooops... can I say that?
I think it's fine as long as you don't post an unauthorized link to the website you intend to sell said cigars from! :o ::) 8)
OneBow
;D ;D ;D Wouldn't want a trip to the Principals office over cigars!
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Pretty sure you can bring back cigars for your own use after making a trip there.
They wouldn't let me bring them back from Canada or the Bahamas.
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Don't know about Cuba but my wife tried to bring back some Guava staves from Honduras. They were confiscated by US customs. They told her that if it was finished lumber it would be OK. Man, I was sick, they were hand picked by my father in law off of his Guava plantation. I'd do my homework if I was you so you don't go to a lot of trouble for nothing.
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Pretty sure you can bring back cigars for your own use after making a trip there.
They wouldn't let me bring them back from Canada or the Bahamas.
That's a sad story Yankie Boy! Tears bigger than horse terds. ;D
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Isn't this thread about lemonwood? ::)
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Never been to Cuba, but all the photo's I've seen of the place are pretty well denuded of forests. I'd be surprised if you couldn't find some to cut down though. There would have to be local hardwood dealers and sawmills too. Hope you know someone who is fluent in Spanish. Good luck.
Hamish
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8) Lemonwood for posterity sake. There's better bow wood in the good old USA. But I will vouch for the Cuban cigars although other countries now closely compare. After Castro took control some of the finest tobacco farmers escaped to nearby regions and started over. You can take away their farms but not their knowledge.
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ya we live in vancouver canada, we can get cuban cigars up here...
cuba is suposed to be lemonwood country, so trackin it down shouldnt be too hard.,
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I think you will be wasting your time! Lemonwood isn't that great a bow wood anyways....just get some ipe ;) ;) ;)
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I think you will be wasting your time! Lemonwood isn't that great a bow wood anyways....just get some ipe ;) ;) ;)
Yeah, but those Ipe cigars are a bit harsh :o
Del
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Rumors have it that one of those countries now growing fine Cuban cigars is Nicaragua; hard to beat rich volcanic soil ;).
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I think lemonwood also grows in Central America.
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Far more widespread than we were led to believe. It's the national tree of Nicaragua as well.
http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/potd/2008/04/calycophyllum_candidissimum.php