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Information and Resources => Trading Post => Topic started by: jonathan creason on December 01, 2011, 11:41:20 am

Title: Looking for some Cholla
Post by: jonathan creason on December 01, 2011, 11:41:20 am

Any of you TX guys have some extra Cholla laying around?  If so, what would you need for it?

Title: Re: Looking for some Cholla
Post by: Pat B on December 01, 2011, 08:23:50 pm

Jonathan, I have a few pieces I can spare.   Do you want them for knife handles?

Title: Re: Looking for some Cholla
Post by: Justin Snyder on December 01, 2011, 11:27:59 pm

I have a little too, but mine is not from Texas.  ::)

Title: Re: Looking for some Cholla
Post by: Pat B on December 02, 2011, 01:09:07 am

Oh well, mine are from TX.   Do they grow in Utah?

Title: Re: Looking for some Cholla
Post by: jonathan creason on December 02, 2011, 10:35:04 am

Sounds good, guys.  I'll shoot ya'll a PM.  They don't necessarily have to be from TX, I just didn't know where else they grew.

Title: Re: Looking for some Cholla
Post by: Justin Snyder on December 02, 2011, 11:03:31 am

Cholla grows all over the South West Sonoran, Mojave and Chihuahuan deserts. Colorado, Texas, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and California all have it. We have teddy bear cholla which grows to 5-9 feet tall. Dont be fooled though, teddy bear doesn't mean it is soft and cuddly.  >:D

Title: Re: Looking for some Cholla
Post by: criveraville on December 05, 2011, 06:12:22 pm

Can yall post a pic of something made with cholla wood?

Cipriano

Title: Re: Looking for some Cholla
Post by: Gus on December 05, 2011, 06:48:18 pm

Found this photo on line.
From Blue Mesa Blades.

Don't know 'em but the photos are Purty!

-gus

Title: Re: Looking for some Cholla
Post by: bubby on December 05, 2011, 07:07:28 pm

yeah, i'd like to get a little of that for handles as well, Bub

Title: Re: Looking for some Cholla
Post by: mullet on December 05, 2011, 07:09:04 pm

I'd like to have the knife, bet it's out of my price range.

Title: Re: Looking for some Cholla
Post by: Wolf Watcher on December 05, 2011, 08:44:36 pm

If you have a Hobby Lobby nearby, they have some the right size for knife handles and they are inexpensive!

Title: Re: Looking for some Cholla
Post by: Ifrit617 on December 05, 2011, 09:16:14 pm

Awesome wolf watcher, I'll have to check that out!

Title: Re: Looking for some Cholla
Post by: criveraville on December 06, 2011, 01:56:51 pm

Thanks Gus.  I asked when I was down south this weekend, but the guy did not know what I was talking about. 

The masculine word chollo in Spanish means "thug" and a cholla would be a female thug. 

Then you have chullo which is a very handsome male... So I guess that is why the fellow gave me an awkward look..

Cipriano

Title: Re: Looking for some Cholla
Post by: Pat B on December 07, 2011, 12:27:32 am

Hopefully they will go out tomorrow, Jonathan.

Title: Re: Looking for some Cholla
Post by: TurtleCreek on December 14, 2011, 02:51:25 pm

  They also sell bird perches made of it

Title: Re: Looking for some Cholla
Post by: Tortoise on December 22, 2011, 02:27:37 am

Should have saw this earlier, I live in arizona and everywhere you look there's cholla.

Title: Re: Looking for some Cholla
Post by: thomas h on December 22, 2011, 12:41:30 pm

i have antlers to trade foe some. ;D