Traditional Bow Building - Part I - Harvesting The Bow Wood- Ancestral Knowledge 

his timing is impeccable isn't it!

I harvest after dec 15 into Feb...

out there i think vine maple is good. also you have YEW!

Maple is a good bow wood

I am a novice but according to forums and a book I have read, sugar maple is a great bow wood. Vine maple is as well. Other maples, not so much. I plan on using one of the sugar maples on my property (northeast) because I don't have any osage, yew, or hickory here.

All naples work some are better than others .. try them all... Seasoning is key

im not familiar with southern cali... juniper maybe.

not sure. maybe juniper.

Blue elderberry, holly leaved cherry, bay laurel, juniper, incense cedar, black Willow

that was josh

+Art Life that's a gas powered hand saw don't cha know. Not sure you read the title, i think it's "traditional bow building" not "Tree Felling".

gonna need a senzu for that one.

Always gotta be one prick to comment. Thanks ART

The bow will never know what tools you used to make it

If they had it they would have used it.

Actually not my land.

yes, i will go to editing school when you learn to spell.

I suck at pretty much everything... Even criticisms... I wish I had a witty comeback to feel more like a man.

Yep. For 30 years now... Seems to work... So it must be wrong.

Ancestral Knowledge yes must be so hard on you for so so long I am traumatized by hurt for 30. Years

That's funny.

A stone axe...

Aww geeze...

+Jt B that tree is quite young compared to the other hickories in the forest. Its a management harvest to ensure healthy growth and production. that tree was less than 12 inches in diameter and every bit of it was used. and the branches become bug food, which becomes bird and other animal food.

In case ya didn't read the title, he's making bows out of the wood, K? BTW, that really isn't a huge tree. Just so ya know.

What did you eat today? Did you really have to kill something to eat? He cut one tree of two growing together. Removing the one allows the other to grow better. It's like weeding a garden or pruning a fruit tree. Man some people really don't see the big picture.