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Offline beartail

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where to find 1x4x8 hickory boards suitable for bow's
« on: January 04, 2015, 01:00:36 pm »
I have called everywhere around here to find a place I can go find a hickory board that I can pick out my self but no luck. anyone got any ideas?
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Offline Sidewinder

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Re: where to find 1x4x8 hickory boards suitable for bow's
« Reply #1 on: January 04, 2015, 01:17:11 pm »
Try a local custom cabinent maker. Thats where I have gotten them in the past.  Danny
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Offline bubby

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Re: where to find 1x4x8 hickory boards suitable for bow's
« Reply #2 on: January 04, 2015, 01:35:34 pm »
yep try a cabinet shop where they build them and don't just assemble them, tell them what you want and ask for their suppliers #
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Re: where to find 1x4x8 hickory boards suitable for bow's
« Reply #3 on: January 04, 2015, 11:33:59 pm »
I have had good luck at Menards and I am fortunate to have several Amish sawmills close by.... Brian
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Offline mhof86

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Re: where to find 1x4x8 hickory boards suitable for bow's
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2015, 08:35:06 am »
Menards around me carry them in stock as well. However that being said I have been checking there about once a week for the past month and a half and have yet to find a suitable one. I usually am able to find red oak no problem. Is it really this hard to find decent hickory boards to make bows or am I just having a bad run of it?
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Offline Pat B

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Re: where to find 1x4x8 hickory boards suitable for bow's
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2015, 08:42:14 am »
Where do you live?
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Offline beartail

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Re: where to find 1x4x8 hickory boards suitable for bow's
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2015, 11:40:01 am »
I live in Goldsboro nc.
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Offline Pat B

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Re: where to find 1x4x8 hickory boards suitable for bow's
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2015, 01:30:36 pm »
Hickory is used very often in the furniture manufacturing and there are lots of furniture factories around central NC. Have you checked out that avenue?
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Offline Badger

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Re: where to find 1x4x8 hickory boards suitable for bow's
« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2015, 01:48:53 pm »
  When I am down south, usually Mississippi I stop by lumber mills and but hickory lumber direcct from the mills. Last time I was there I bout 4 4X4X10' posts of hickory for $4.00 each. It cost me about $100.00 to ship them home and they were still wet.
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