Just a phase?

[psychmonky]

Ever since I started my first bow, I can't stop scrutinizing every piece of wood I see. Furniture, door jams, fence posts, hardwood floors...im looking at everything, saying to my self: "look at that grain!" Or "I wonder what kind of wood that bookshelf is made of."

Am I ever going to outgrow this? Lol and do others have the same problem?

Scott

[Eric Krewson]

It never goes away, you are doomed.......

[rmorris]

Hope your not married! That eventually will start to annoy your wife and you will at least start to notice and observe quietly. It never goes away so try to enjoy yourself and not think about how to get your hands on your sisters mango wood furniture or how many arrows you can make out of the Olive Garden vertical grain Douglas fir doors...

[Roy from Pa]

LOL, I can't drive down the road without checking out Osage trees I see along the road.. Cracks the wife up.

[psychmonky]

Lol I AM married, and my wife is already starting to say "you can't have it" when I say "hey, do you use this for anything?"

Scott

[Roy from Pa]

LOL, I bought my wife a full length deer hide dress about 12 years ago. I know she can't fit into it anymore and it would make awesome trad stuff. BUT, I'm too skeered to ask for it.  

[Nim-rod]

Still afflicted with the same disease here too. I drive around with my tree identification book in the car and a hatchet. I need help...toting that log and putting it in my xterra!

[okie64]

Yep, it never goes away. I used to go deer huntin to hunt deer and deer only but I have trouble staying focused on the deer huntin part now. I used to sit in my treestand and wander if the deer were over that next ridge but now I'm thinkin I wander if theres any straight osage trees over that next ridge. Its definitely an addiction, but its not a bad one.

[PEARL DRUMS]

Once you get full blown into stave bows it gets worse. Grain doesnt matter anymore and you start scrutinizng every bark pattern on every tree, even tree's that wont make a bow! Or you start wondering how cool that knot would look on the back of a bow...........and its still happily in the ground growing.

Funy you say that okie. I do the same. I miss half the deer around me because Im mentally marking hackberry, elm and HHB I want to come back and get in 10-12 years when its ready to harvest!

[John Scifres]

I have read the grain in every pew at church.  We just refurbed them about 4 years ago so I doubt I'll be able to make a bow from one of them anytime soon but that sure would be cool  

[PEARL DRUMS]

That would be cool John. If that wasnt a lucky bow for you none will ever be!

[psychmonky]

Lol our county just built a new courthouse and while I was waiting to testify the other day I was really admiring how straight the grain was in the witness stand.

Scott

[Dan Landis]

John, I thought I was the only one looking at church pews to see if a bow is in there somewhere.
Last week while driving home from a hunt with my brother a saw a stand of bamboo and was looking to see if any of it was suitable for arrows when my brother hollered at me to get back on the road, almost hit a sign.  Like was said before, enjoy it, just be careful......Dan

[BigErn]

I'm right there with ya'll! I'm sitting here
laughing,I know my place in life now!
                                      Ernie

[wood carver 2]

You wouldn't want to remove that lovely old butt polish patina from those pews now...would you?
I know how you guys feel though, I drive with my head on a swivel, watching for nice trees and huntable critters too.    A while ago I built a new fireplace mantel for a friend and I kept the old one. It's such a nice piece of old white oak, I've been using it for risers.
I love this addiction!    
Dave.

[Stiks-n-Strings]

Me and the little lady where heading to town the other day and I was driving (Which I don't to much of anymore) and she bout gave me a heart attack when she hollered at me to get back on the road. I just pulled over and told her she could drive     :D  

 Keeps me out of the ditches and I get to focus on the trees a little better, LOL

 I often wonder how I'm gonna explain to an officer that really wasn't drinking, I was looking for bow wood.

 I've always had an addiction to wood grain. I thought it was bad when I made turkey calls. It 10 times worse now.

 All I can say is keep her between the ditches boys!     :D

[karrow]

yea im in this group as well. i was cutting some osage for corner post the other day and checked out the rings on all of them just to make sure there wasnt any that had those big dark rings i have been lookin for  :D  . i am ate up with bow building, no good at it but...ate up with it