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Offline Dean Marlow

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Re: What's in Your Stash?
« Reply #15 on: November 26, 2011, 01:59:20 pm »
Here is one of my favorites in my pile. Still scracthing my head on this one. Dean
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Offline gstoneberg

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Re: What's in Your Stash?
« Reply #16 on: November 26, 2011, 02:10:35 pm »
Please make that one a build-a-long when you do it.  ;D  I've been watching for a piece of osage like that for 20 years and haven't found one yet.  Good luck with it, should be awesome.

George
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Offline ErictheViking

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Re: What's in Your Stash?
« Reply #17 on: November 26, 2011, 02:11:56 pm »
i have vine maple, black locust, cascara, yew, bitter cherry, hazel, purple plum and holly. in boards I have ipe, osage, and garapa.  also have 3 hickory backings and 2 hard maple. lots of materials just no time. :(
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Offline fishfinder401

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Re: What's in Your Stash?
« Reply #18 on: November 26, 2011, 02:32:22 pm »
black tupelo.............. :'(
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Offline Dean Marlow

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Re: What's in Your Stash?
« Reply #19 on: November 26, 2011, 02:38:33 pm »
O.K. George will do. It has some cracks in it which will be a challenge. Dean
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: What's in Your Stash?
« Reply #20 on: November 26, 2011, 03:01:38 pm »
One of these days there is going to be an episode of "Hoarders: Buried Alive" featuring one of you guys.  It might even have a photograph of a poor li'l Rascal of a raccoon crushed under the avalance of staves, or something like that. 

Gonna give us bowyers a bad image, someone might think we are ALL a bit off!   O:)

Osage
Bur oak
Green Ash
Mulberry
Goncalo alves
Bamboo
Maple
Chokecherry
Hickory staves
Hickory boards
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Offline Keenan

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Re: What's in Your Stash?
« Reply #21 on: November 26, 2011, 03:31:17 pm »
Quote from: JW_Halverson on November 26, 2011, 03:01:38 pm
One of these days there is going to be an episode of "Hoarders: Buried Alive" featuring one of you guys.  It might even have a photograph of a poor li'l Rascal of a raccoon crushed under the avalance of staves, or something like that. 

Gonna give us bowyers a bad image, someone might think we are ALL a bit off!   O:)

JW, My late father in-law asked  "Dont you think you have enough bow wood"?   I don't think he understood the need to try every kind of wood and bow design:o
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: What's in Your Stash?
« Reply #22 on: November 26, 2011, 03:41:32 pm »
Along those lines, I was asked recently how many bows I have made.  I said I had lost count, but it was about 200.  The guy looked around, not seeing but maybe 8-10 bows in the house and he asked if I made pretty good money selling 'em.  I said I've sold maybe a couple dozen at the most, gave away all the rest.

Got me to wondering how I found that many people to give away all those dang bows?!?!  I had to make myself stop thinking about it because I could only think of a few instances where someone had ever given me something back.  No sense dwelling on it and getting bitter.  Kinda like parenting, finish 'em the best you can and let it go at that. 
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TurtleCreek

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Re: What's in Your Stash?
« Reply #23 on: November 26, 2011, 03:42:53 pm »
Here's mine-

Hickory
American Elm
White Ash
Black Walnut
Hazlenut
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: What's in Your Stash?
« Reply #24 on: November 26, 2011, 03:49:37 pm »
I can't leave it like that, did some re-thinking.   >:(

I can remember quite a few kids with grins so big I thought they'd crack their jaws!  The sight of them runnin' off all elbows and heels to show off their new bow-n-arrow sets puts a pretty hefty balance in the plus column.   Very few of them kids said thanks right away, but most came back later when they could breathe and said it.  ;D

I'm all right with that.
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Offline Dazv

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Re: What's in Your Stash?
« Reply #25 on: November 26, 2011, 04:05:24 pm »
not enough :-(
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TurtleCreek

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« Reply #26 on: November 26, 2011, 04:11:59 pm »
Maybe someday I can add straight and clean osage to my list
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Offline Keenan

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Re: What's in Your Stash?
« Reply #27 on: November 26, 2011, 04:35:54 pm »
Jw, you are a good man! 

Quote from: TurtleCreek on November 26, 2011, 04:11:59 pm
Maybe someday I can add straight and clean osage to my list
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Now if we are talking about straight staves,,,,, well I would be in the lacking department.
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Offline druid

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Re: What's in Your Stash?
« Reply #28 on: November 26, 2011, 04:56:07 pm »
Dean, this is the most beautifull osage I ever saw!!!  :D
I vote for Keenan's stash!!!  ;)
I have these species:
-black locust
-ash
-elm
-apple
-cherry
-wild plum (two species)
-thuja occidentalis
- maple stave (but I do not like it)
-low quality yew
-elderberry
-hazel (growing around my cabin, not dry staves)
-osage
-dogwood
-euonimus
-rowan
- Tree of heaven
-hawthorn
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: What's in Your Stash?
« Reply #29 on: November 26, 2011, 05:14:28 pm »
Quote from: druid on November 26, 2011, 04:56:07 pm
-hazel (growing around my cabin, not dry staves)

Kinda like not shooting deer in your own backyard....it's fresher on the hoof for when you really need it!
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