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Is this stave firewood

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TimBo:
Knowing the placement of the knot in the stave is important.  If it's not at the widest point of the limb, it is probably going to disappear.  Even if you decide you can't use it for a bow, you can still make really nice arrows out of it.  The BL arrows I have made are very dense (so you can use a small diameter) and stay straight well.  Unfortunately they are still spined a bit high for me, so I haven't shot them much...but they sure seem like good shafts!

Dances with squirrels:
Looks like black locust to me as well. An easy way to tell for sure... hold a black/uv light near it in the dark. If it's black locust it will glow like you wouldn't believe. Osage, mulberry, hickory etc will not... at all.

Walski:
Thank you all for your comments, it does look more like BL since it was a gift to me by someone that doesn't know anything about archery.
I went back and looked the stave over, and it's long enough for this knot to be located in the handle, problem solved.

bradsmith2010:
great solution,, :)

Fox:

--- Quote from: bradsmith2010 on April 18, 2022, 07:15:53 pm ---looks like locust to me :)

--- End quote ---

BL was my first thought, don’t look like no hickory I’ve ever seen

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