Used to make a few bows of osage orange when i lived back east hickory to and i brought quite a few staves with me when i moved west but i haven't finished any for a while ,made a few recurved bows one of mullberry with a sinew back prolly 35 lbs though mullberry not that great for sinew backing used wild rose shoots that i cut in the winter and hand straightened over the stove for shafts as well as dog wood and some shafts i split outta clear douglas fir lumber and planed by hand ,and so much more i could prolly write a book about all the stuff iv'e done in making traditional archery gear ,th