Osage Slat question

[PEARL DRUMS]

They were cheap enough, save them for handle sections and overlays.

[Roy from Pa]

I make my own lams, Tony. I've been blessed with a good friend who owns 60 acres in Ohio which is loaded with Osage trees. Another friend recently gave me 7 Osage staves which are 12 years old and were kept inside out of the weather. 12 year old Osage is like gold..    My other bow making buddy buys rough cut boards at a sawmill beside his camp. We get red and gray elm, walnut, maple, and hickory boards and make our own core lams.

If you need the wood cleaned up, I can run the belly lams through the drum sander and I can taper the core lams for you.. You just pay for the return shipping..

[razorback]

Thanks for the offer Roy, very generous. I am looking at them now and the 1/4 sawn piece has a lot of runoffs so I may do what Paerlie said and just keep them for handles and overlays. I may try for another source or call 3rivers and see about getting better boards. They may be cheap because that is all they have left of their stock and they want to get rid of it.