I am cleaning out my stable, giving a lot of stuff away but this yew stave is too special and should go to a good cause.
I traded for this yew stave over 5 years ago, it was green at the time but has been stored in my shop for 5 years+ and is completely seasoned now. Due to old age (77) and complications from 40 years of doing careless stuff resulting in injuries, surgeries, and the accumulated arthritis, I have come to realize that I can no longer make bows.
I am offering this fine pacific yew stave for trade, not for merch but for a $150 donation to St Jude Children's Hospital, you can make a donation on your phone after looking at the stave, if you like it. The catch is I won't ship it; I can meet you within a 40-mile radius of Florence in NW Alabama or you can pick it up in Florence. I will also be at the Alabama Kentucky Long Rifle Show at Wheeler Lodge in Rogersville (Jan 9-11-25) if you plan to attend. I OKed this trade with Pat a while back.
The stave is 72.5" long.
2 3/4" wide on the small end, 3" deep and has 37 rings to the inch just below the sapwood. Those aren't checks on the end, they are bandsaw cuts, I filed down the end partially to show the rings but didn't clean up all the saw cut marks.
It has 3 pin clusters like this on the back but no indentions.
The stave has a very slight bend to the side on one end, fitting a English longbow down the crown of the back would require no straightening.
I will even throw in some nice buffalo horn for nocks if you want them.
