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Offline Young Bowyer

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Lemonwood Staves
« 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)
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Re: Lemonwood Staves
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Lemonwood Staves
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2011, 12:58:40 am »
 ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Lemonwood Staves
« Reply #3 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.
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Offline Young Bowyer

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Re: Lemonwood Staves
« Reply #4 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)
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Re: Lemonwood Staves
« Reply #5 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
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Offline Young Bowyer

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Re: Lemonwood Staves
« Reply #6 on: June 01, 2011, 11:01:59 pm »
I wonder why the value increased? Research time!  :)
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Re: Lemonwood Staves
« Reply #7 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
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Offline Young Bowyer

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Re: Lemonwood Staves
« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2011, 01:04:12 am »
weird how politics collides with bowmaking ;D
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Re: Lemonwood Staves
« Reply #9 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  ;)
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Offline Young Bowyer

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Re: Lemonwood Staves
« Reply #10 on: June 02, 2011, 09:07:56 pm »
 :D
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Offline BowJunkie

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Re: Lemonwood Staves
« Reply #11 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
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Re: Lemonwood Staves
« Reply #12 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
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Lemonwood Staves
« Reply #13 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!  ;)
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Offline Young Bowyer

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Re: Lemonwood Staves
« Reply #14 on: June 05, 2011, 02:48:51 pm »
Well when life gives you lemons, make bows from em!  ;D
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