Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: osage outlaw on December 21, 2009, 08:14:43 am
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I just had a garage built and I am sectioning off a 10'x24' bow/work shop. For the guys that store a lot of staves, do you lean them up in a corner? Hang them from the roof? Stack them on the floor? I am just looking for some ideas. I have a lot of osage cut and I want to maximize my work area. Pictures would be great. Thanks.
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Mine are all leaned in a Corner after I soaked them with Borax to keep the Bugs down....probably better to lay them Flat....but I haven't enough Room to do so........... :P
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After 20 years of making bows I just built a shelf for them. Now I store them vertically. Prior I stored some vertically and some horizontally. Jawge
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I have shelf brackets high up the wall of the garage with 2x1 on 'em.
I lay the staves across them like shelves, then another couple of bits of 2x1 as spacers and more staves.
When it gets full up I add another two brackets underneath.
I leave the back door of the garage open, and there is a fair gap under the car door at the other end, I get a nice through draft which helps to season 'em quickly.
Del
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I stack mine on top a couple blocks on the basement floor, kind of layer them. The basement is sometimes damp after heavy rains, but I keep a fan going and a de-humidifer on during the summer. Always horizontal.
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osage outlaw,
I dont use osage or any of the western woods, but here's what I do in northern Mi. I store mine on racks in an outdoor shed to start...untill they stabilize (few weeks to a few months) then move them indoors on these racks. (pic) Around here the humidity is nearly allways in the 80% range (yesterday it was 82% and the temperature was 12 degrees F) go figure. Anyway...wood never really dries out here, so after stabilizing in the shed they go to be kiln dried to about 8% then back indoors untill it's time to butcher one.
One other thing....you can see the tube in the pic of the wooden rack....while I work a bow down it goes into the tube with the hair dryer in one end (gives me moving air and warm (set on low) dry conditions) untill I can get the bow sealed. Obviously my stuff is not like your "split staves" so take it for what ever it's worth.
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I had my own woodstorage. Ok, its the half from ouer sheep hutch.
Pretty dry, and warm. I dry my staves in in a haystack.
Bernhard
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in my garage i try and keep them in the rafters.any thing to keep them off of the concrete
and in a manner that air gets around the complete stave.
in my basement i have a couple of shelf brackets that i lay them across
i like to keep all of mine flat on their backs,ecept for boards that will be bows,them i have flat on edge and not on the back/belly side of the wood
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Untill I split them out they are off the floor on blocks up in the barn. After I split them into staves they are stored between the joists in the basement. I just screw boards into the bottom of the joist to support the staves.
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Logs just lay about the yard...especially next to the curb, crossing the sidewalk. I have a few in the driveway, too, laying across motorcycle frames. The neighbors like it.
The staves stay on a shelf in my office. Lots of air flow and a constant temperature...good for the wood.
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Thanks everyone. So is it a bad idea to stand them up on concrete?
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thats where mine are...standing on the Garage Floor......... ;)
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Anywhere and everywhere. I have them between the first floor joists in the basement, racks in the shed, standing up next to the furnace, clamped to studs in the yet to be finished basement bathroom. Now I just need the time to make them into bows. ;)
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I got about 16 or 17 hickory staves tucked underneath a couple of workbenches on a wood floor in my studio. I shot them with bug stuff, sealed the ends and rough sawed them before I stored them.
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At first in the loft in the barn, when that got full, I started filling the basement in the shop. ;D Now there are just piles everywhere. ::) >:D But I'm doing ok because I have admitted that I have a problem. :D O:)
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Wow, hearing about how some of you have to stash your staves in corners and under workbenches, it's like you don't have enough room to store all of your staves correctly.
Being new to bowmaking and not having very many staves of my own (yet) and being such a generous person, I'll tell you what I'll do for you unfortunate people with too much wood and not enough space. You send me the staves you don't have room for and I'll "store" them where I have plenty of space I haven't filled yet in my basement workshop that stays around 68-70 degrees, 50-60% RH, bug free and dry year round.
No, don't thank me now, I know it's a truly generous offer and I'm putting myself out a little to use my storage space for your staves but I'll find "some way" to deal with it. >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D ;D ;D ;D ;)
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just to let you all know..that keenan has wood stashed every where...i even think he makes his wife sleep on the couch and staves in the bed :D :D...he does have one piece of yew that i still have my eye on...i will have to take it when he isn't looking. ;D...or make one heck of a trade for this one....john
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being a new to bow making the only staves I have are a coupe of red oak boards sitting on the basement floor...and 6 oak staves leaning against my pegboard in the garage.
The other oak log is laying on the gravel next to the pole barn.
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;D ;D
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I currenly have all my my staves leaning against the wall in a corner of my room. During the summer i put them in the attic sometimes if i want to speed dry a stave. My attic gets over 120 degrees in the summer.
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My staves are stored standing up, in a spare closet inside the house (in order to keep the temp and RH at a constant).