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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: beartail on January 04, 2015, 01:00:36 pm

Title: where to find 1x4x8 hickory boards suitable for bow's
Post by: beartail on January 04, 2015, 01:00:36 pm

I have called everywhere around here to find a place I can go find a hickory board that I can pick out my self but no luck. anyone got any ideas?

Title: Re: where to find 1x4x8 hickory boards suitable for bow's
Post by: Sidewinder on January 04, 2015, 01:17:11 pm

Try a local custom cabinent maker. Thats where I have gotten them in the past.  Danny

Title: Re: where to find 1x4x8 hickory boards suitable for bow's
Post by: bubby on January 04, 2015, 01:35:34 pm

yep try a cabinet shop where they build them and don't just assemble them, tell them what you want and ask for their suppliers #

Title: Re: where to find 1x4x8 hickory boards suitable for bow's
Post by: koan on January 04, 2015, 11:33:59 pm

I have had good luck at Menards and I am fortunate to have several Amish sawmills close by.... Brian

Title: Re: where to find 1x4x8 hickory boards suitable for bow's
Post by: mhof86 on January 07, 2015, 08:35:06 am

Menards around me carry them in stock as well. However that being said I have been checking there about once a week for the past month and a half and have yet to find a suitable one. I usually am able to find red oak no problem. Is it really this hard to find decent hickory boards to make bows or am I just having a bad run of it?

Title: Re: where to find 1x4x8 hickory boards suitable for bow's
Post by: Pat B on January 07, 2015, 08:42:14 am

Where do you live?

Title: Re: where to find 1x4x8 hickory boards suitable for bow's
Post by: beartail on January 07, 2015, 11:40:01 am

I live in Goldsboro nc.

Title: Re: where to find 1x4x8 hickory boards suitable for bow's
Post by: Pat B on January 07, 2015, 01:30:36 pm

Hickory is used very often in the furniture manufacturing and there are lots of furniture factories around central NC. Have you checked out that avenue?

Title: Re: where to find 1x4x8 hickory boards suitable for bow's
Post by: Badger on January 07, 2015, 01:48:53 pm

  When I am down south, usually Mississippi I stop by lumber mills and but hickory lumber direcct from the mills. Last time I was there I bout 4 4X4X10' posts of hickory for $4.00 each. It cost me about $100.00 to ship them home and they were still wet.