Lucky 5 min Hedge find !

[Stick Bender]

I was looking for a peace of hedge for slats or lams and stumbled upon a off shoot of a crotch that looks strait grained to me if Im reading the bark right the rest of the tree looked to spiral grained but only took 5 min. to cut and seal I wasn't planning on cutting hedge today just stumbled upon it lucky find ! This one looks like it would make a good self bow to its going to be a hard choice to lumberise ! Its strait for about 76 in. and takes a bit of a lateral curve.

[Stick Bender]

Rings

[Del the cat]

Sweet find
Del

[bradsmith2010]

thats self bow,, dont cut it sell it to me,, 

[Stick Bender]

This one is not crooked enough for you Brad 🤢

[Hawkdancer]

Looks like there may be more than one bow in there!
Hawkdancer

[bjrogg]

Looks like a nice find.
Bjrogg

[Stick Bender]

Might be able to get 5 bows if I cut slats it really was a lucky find we where out doing other stuff and I spoted it & lucky we had the chain saw with us it was a spur of the moment find.

[osage outlaw]

That's a nice looking piece of osage.  If you are going to split it into staves you might want to bust it in half so the ends don't start checking on it.

[Stick Bender]

Thanks Clint I sealed it with poly right after cutting I will probably split it out his week end !

[ohma2]

Nice find .