Grg Allred and I swapped a few staves and I just wanted to post some pics of the awesome stuff he sent me and say what a great guy he is. I got two packages. The first had mountain mahogany(with splices already cut) and chokecherry in it and the other one had juniper staves and sinew to go with it. I was like a little kid at Christmas opening those packages.

My baby girl had to get in on this pic, shes holdin the sinew and shes not camera shy at all.

nice looking staves and billets, and what a little ham that one is. Hope you get her into the building of some of them staves.

Nice looking stash right there! I did some trading with Keenan at the classic. Got me some of that mahogony, Juniper, Vine maple, yew,and a piece of myrtle.

Sure is exciting to get your hands on a variety!

I'm glad to see it arrived in one piece and I hope it makes some good bows.

Stiks, was the mahogany in billets or a stave?

You said it exactly right Stiks. We've got lots of good bow wood to choose from around here but it sure is nice to try some wood from a different part of the country that I dont have access to.

Kelly, yes she is quite a ham and she helps me out in the shop quite a bit. I just wish she'd quit growin up so fast.

Wow, super cool stash...VERY envious!

Hey Stix, sounds like you made out like a bandit with a mix of staves like that how do you choose which is the next victim?      

Look forward to seeing some bows com out of this...

gota love trading, and baby girls.

and free osage!

i heard through my wife's work grapevine that there is some osage less than a mile from where i lived for the last 3 years.

cant wait to get out there and find some saplings


awesome score!
-hov

Greg the mountain mahogany I got is a stave about 64" long. Keenan told me the heart wood was brittle and he preferred a sapwood bow with less heart wood.

He also said that he has only made two bows from it and never heated it. The stave I have looks like an s and will need some heat so we will find out how it responds. Hoping to get a wide limb flat snaky bow from it and put some sweet skins on it the heart wood may make a fantastic bow. Seems to be little info about it but I know it is very dense and the heart wood is beautiful.

Stiks

Stiks,
That is a rare piece of mahogany, I've never seen one that had 64" of clean wood. They are the most twisted, crooked, tortued looking tree we have here. I'm anxious to see how it turns out.

It's pretty snaky! One tip is off by about 8" We'll see what happens. It came from Oregon, I got it laid out and roughed but it's in the corner for a while. Got some other bows to work on.

I love trading and bartering with goods for goods. I think I was born about 150 years too late.

Nice score Okie!

Now make us somethin perty!