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mullet:
Unless they are crazy twisted you can straighten them like Adam said. You can also make some fine, laminated yew boys if you quarter saw the twisted ones into boards. I'd be interested in some small boards.

Del the cat:
IMO anything less than 45 degrees twist over the length of the stave does matter in the slightest.
Del
BTW. Feel free to ship me samples for appraisal  ;) O:)

wizardgoat:
Hey. People who hunt yew just to make money off bowyers and know nothing about it is pretty weak.
The same kind of guys who cut every single yew tree in site without knowing which ones will make a bow. I know you work in the logging industry and a disgusting amount of yew is wasted on burn piles and I also know certain people also charge ludicrous amounts of money for yew staves.  To me both these situations are lame.
Non bowyers who come here looking for advice on how to make money off bowyers doesn't sit well with me. I apologize if I'm reading into this too much.
If your looking for an "unbelievable"  pay check from "pristine" yew, you better know what your selling and how to handle it properly

Aaron H:
I would suggest that you build a handful of bows.  Get an idea of what it takes, and what type of wood you want to look for.  Then you can start identifying good quality yew and differentiating between it and the stuff that goes into the burn pile.  What you want to do with the wood after you get some knowledge is up to you.  I know I would l like to see the prices of yew staves go down as well as the quality of the staves increasing.

yew hunter:
    Thanks for the reply wizardgoat and falcon. I didn't intend to come across as lame, I was basically trying to find the best way to prepare a yew stave for sale and use. I have read the bowyers bible, the traditional bowyers encyclopedia, the best book i have though is Teaching the bow to bend, it is much better with the instruction, but none seem to address the problem of twist in a yew log which is why i tried this forum. I do wonder if the reason yew staves are so expensive is due to the experience required to make the stave and then add in the lack of access to yew, it would be hard to buy/sell. I am not looking to make a huge pay cheque by selling expensive walking sticks to bowyers, I do however have access to a resource of yew that nobody seems to want to deal with and would rather just burn it in slash piles than try to do something with it. All my yew comes from salvage in the area where i live/work. I am also working on a bow from some of already straight/clear yew - it is not easy. As for my twisted yew i'll just keep working on the problem.   

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