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green tree or dead for hickory wood selfbow

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peaceatwork:
Thank you so much... I have a fair bit of land to explore and will find a good, clean, straight tree to make a few staves.  taking some boys camping for a week and we need to be doing something!!!!

Thesquirrelslinger:
You can use other woods too.
Hickory, Elm, Ash, Eastern Red Ceder...
Here- https://sites.google.com/site/onemississipp/bowwoods
Its Tim Baker's bow wood list :)
Someone posted it earlier this week.

Joec123able:

--- Quote from: peaceatwork on June 14, 2013, 06:03:43 pm ---Thank you so much... I have a fair bit of land to explore and will find a good, clean, straight tree to make a few staves.  taking some boys camping for a week and we need to be doing something!!!!

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Unless its a rot resistant wood like Osage or cedar then forget making a bow from dead wood white woods decompose very fast where as say osage, can be left out for decades and still be turned into a bow

Mike_H:
Guess I just got lucky.  I made one from a dead standing maple that's holding up quite well.

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