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Information and Resources => Trading Post => Topic started by: Young Bowyer on May 31, 2011, 11:58:19 pm

Title: Lemonwood Staves
Post by: Young Bowyer on May 31, 2011, 11:58:19 pm

Hi, im new to PA and i was looking for some nice lemonwood staves for a beginner, willing to trade 2 rabbit hides, an old knife, or raspséfiles of varying coarseness (is that a word?  ;D)

Title: Re: Lemonwood Staves
Post by: mullet on June 01, 2011, 12:52:55 am

Save your money up till you get out of school. Get a Passport, give someone some kind of reason why you want to make a Cultural visit to the Country side, and then apply for a Visa to Cuba. If you get a good source for the wood,  then apply for the import stamps. It won't be easy The wood is called Degame.

Title: Re: Lemonwood Staves
Post by: sailordad on June 01, 2011, 12:58:40 am

 ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Lemonwood Staves
Post by: JackCrafty on June 01, 2011, 01:58:11 pm

Lemonwood is hard to get these days.  A good stave of that stuff is worth at least $100.  For a beginner, I suggest making some bows out of hickory, hophornbeam, elm, or other harwood saplings.

Title: Re: Lemonwood Staves
Post by: Young Bowyer on June 01, 2011, 08:55:14 pm

Well then  :-\ i was reaading an old popular mechanics article that said lemonwood was inexpensive and easy to work, i guess i was mistaken  ;D  (atleast about the price part)

Title: Re: Lemonwood Staves
Post by: sailordad on June 01, 2011, 10:41:03 pm

hey i read that very article
many years ago but i do remember it

look at when that article was published  ;)
the wood was cheaper and more attainable back then

Title: Re: Lemonwood Staves
Post by: Young Bowyer on June 01, 2011, 11:01:59 pm

I wonder why the value increased? Research time!  :)

Title: Re: Lemonwood Staves
Post by: sailordad on June 02, 2011, 12:45:46 am

Quote from: Young Bowyer on June 01, 2011, 11:01:59 pm

I wonder why the value increased? Research time!  :)

2 words

cuban embargo


atleast to my understanding

Title: Re: Lemonwood Staves
Post by: Young Bowyer on June 02, 2011, 01:04:12 am

weird how politics collides with bowmaking ;D

Title: Re: Lemonwood Staves
Post by: sailordad on June 02, 2011, 07:53:42 pm

Quote from: Young Bowyer on June 02, 2011, 01:04:12 am

weird how politics collides with bowmaking ;D

not to mention it made it all but impossible to get a realy great cigar  ;)

Title: Re: Lemonwood Staves
Post by: Young Bowyer on June 02, 2011, 09:07:56 pm

 :D

Title: Re: Lemonwood Staves
Post by: BowJunkie on June 05, 2011, 12:13:38 pm

You could always plant your own tree,  I have some growing nicely here in Texas, got a few lime trees also ;D

Title: Re: Lemonwood Staves
Post by: BowJunkie on June 05, 2011, 12:15:33 pm

Also ,, a side note, until the tree reaches "Bow making Potential" I pick the fruit and sell it to the local farmers market

Title: Re: Lemonwood Staves
Post by: Pat B on June 05, 2011, 02:09:14 pm

BowJunkie, lemonwood(for bow wood[digame']) and lemon trees(for fruit) are two different trees. Not that lemon trees won't make a bow but they are not the same!  ;)

Title: Re: Lemonwood Staves
Post by: Young Bowyer on June 05, 2011, 02:48:51 pm

Well when life gives you lemons, make bows from em!  ;D

Title: Re: Lemonwood Staves
Post by: Pat B on June 05, 2011, 03:20:43 pm

You're too wise for your age, Young Bowyer!  8)
  I have a lemonwood stave that James Parker gave me but you ain't getting it!!!  ;D

Title: Re: Lemonwood Staves
Post by: Young Bowyer on June 05, 2011, 03:30:51 pm

Eh im just 13, but I get 90s in math n such so I skip school and go hunting!  >:D