Things always going on at Twin Oaks. The coyote and cat skulls will be a nice addition to your collection. Looks like Jimmy hasn't missed too many meals lately. Glad to see he's still at it with his bow building. Years ago I had one of Gary's bow staves. It was a long narrow ELB style stave.
« Last post by sleek on November 30, 2025, 08:30:50 pm »
Doug, I am very grateful for the donation! Thank you for joining in! Im going to group all the parts of bow kit together to make it one big bow making kit as a package deal, so if a new guy wants it, he gets a complete kit.
« Last post by Burnsie on November 30, 2025, 08:28:19 pm »
I had never heard of Ocean Spray before, so I did some Googling and bit of reading as it pertains to bow wood. It appears you are very fortunate to have a stave that long, as well as a stave that hasn't checked/cracked badly. A lot of comments online about how badly it checks and how rare it is to find anything over 50-60" long. Supposed to be super tough wood if you can keep it from checking. Native Americans used it for all kinds of tools (ie: arrows) - early settlers made nails/pegs out of it. Really like the shape you went with.