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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Eastern fisher on January 05, 2008, 02:40:00 PM
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Well here it is 3:28 pm. Saturday afternoon. My teenage son is at a birthday get together. My wife is shopping (surprise) and my 3 year old daughter is asleep. It is sunny and relatively warm outside. Thier are coyotes and rabbits to be taken AND I AM STUCK HERE. AUGHHHHHH. I ordered The Bent Stick by Paul Comstock 2 days ago from 3 Rivers. Now I have to wait. A friend of mine loaned me his book called The Flat Bow by Hunt @ Metz. It is an interesting book and he made a flatbow with it but I found that his bow was a bit on the bulky side so I am going to wait for The Bent Stick to arrive. (This coming from a man with ZERO patience). Anyways untill it arrives I have a question or two. I have been told by many good people from our family here that most fruit and nut trees will work. I would like to try Osage or Yew but we cannot get it from any stores here in Nova Scotia. No one can find a dealer who they can get it from. Any ways (probably more than I can afford) So what do I use? I like the look of Cherry, Ash. I want to try and build a "cool looking bow" as well as one that works. Any ideas??
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Eastern Fisher,
Yew staves from Canada-E-mail this guy:
[email protected]
His staves are Pacific Yew, and builds Yew longbows also.
Best of luck!
R.W.