Searching for seasoned Osage stave or billets

[razorbak]

I got the building bow blues bad I need a stave or billets willing to trade or purchase

[JW_Halverson]

Look up a guy called John War Hammer on Facebook. He knows what good osage is and his stuff is pretty prime.

[Eric Krewson]

I don't know where you live but if it is anywhere near N/W Alabama (Florence), drop by and I will give you some osage.

[Eric Krewson]

I did notice there is lot of osage on Etsy, $100 shipped free which might not be that bad a deal if the stave is good enough.

https://www.etsy.com/search?q=osage%20bow%20staves&ref=auto-1&as_prefix=osage%20bow%20stave

[JW_Halverson]

I did notice there is lot of osage on Etsy, $100 shipped free which might not be that bad a deal if the stave is good enough.

https://www.etsy.com/search?q=osage%20bow%20staves&ref=auto-1&as_prefix=osage%20bow%20stave

I have bought from him. You gotta be really careful because he is selling more than a few staves with high earlywood to late wood ratio. Just ask him for plenty of pics of the stave, including shots of BOTH ends.

[razorbak]

Still looking as several of the billets were really bad and failed

[JW_Halverson]

Still looking as several of the billets were really bad and failed

Dang, sorry to hear that. There is a newer Facebook group called Stave Traders run by Timothy "Danger" Minefski. A guy named Chris Thomas recently (Dec 9) posted a pile of what looks like rather decent staves. He has hickory, osage, red oak, white oak and some locust.