Thanks! I made the music using all the instruments I was teaching for that online school (which has since gone under) The tunes in my shop were on a great old tape of 'Great Canadian Fiddling' which has also, sadly, been eaten by my tape deck.
What we refer to as 'dogwood' here in Ontario is a bush with red bark which doesn't, as far as I know, get big enough to make bones! But I will keep my eye out and see if I can find some large enough for the job.
The width is typically around 1.25 inches, the length is determoned by closing your middle finger onto your palm, then measuring the length from that point you can reach (spiderman style!) to the tip of your middle finger. For me that's about 6.5 inches.
