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Wood database?
DouglasDanger
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Can anyone recommend a wood database, or some way to tell if a given wood is sustainable?
I'm ordering a custom bow, and many of the woods I am googling are threatened or endangered. I'm finding the bow industry is almost as indifferent or unscrupulous as the furniture industry.
Is Google a good resource for this?
For example, I have seen some bows made of wenge, which is a beautiful dark wood that's almost black.
However, depending on where I read, it's either fine to use, or it's endangered and being exploited.
Can anyone point me to some reliable resources?
I'm ordering a custom bow, and many of the woods I am googling are threatened or endangered. I'm finding the bow industry is almost as indifferent or unscrupulous as the furniture industry.
Is Google a good resource for this?
For example, I have seen some bows made of wenge, which is a beautiful dark wood that's almost black.
However, depending on where I read, it's either fine to use, or it's endangered and being exploited.
Can anyone point me to some reliable resources?
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https://www.iucnredlist.org/search
https://plants.usda.gov/threat.html
And for lots of them, there are several species it could be
we have tons of Osage around here. I've got a friend who is dying to make a bow from some
If building your own, see if there is a lumber mill near you or some woodshop guy you can pick stuff up from.
I took @Xaquin to a guy near me who basically gets trees as they fall or are cut down by different organizations in the area. A lot of local species.
But as far as pulling from a vendor, you basically have to trust that they trust the seller of the wood.
I need to get back there.
I'm really coming around on osage, and they stock that one, thanks to Xaquin
edit: I still have no idea how to pronounce it. I say it so that rhymes with massage but I don't know if that's right
Maple: It's fine..
Bubinga: Generally "No" or "Fuck no". Of the bubinga species there are variatns that are endangered as fuck, overexploited or "We don't know because nobody has done a sustainability study on this one".
Leopardwood*: It's OK.
Wenge: "No" and bordering on "Fuck no"
Zebra: No. Of the different species they're either endangered or overexploited.
Osage: It's OK.
Pupleheart*: Ok.
Redheart: Some species are stable, some are "Hell no you shouldn't support this shit". From a supplier that has Wenge and Bubinga as options that would be a strong "No" to me. There is no fucking way these guys care enough to only use wood from sustainable populations.
Bacote: Same answer as Redheart
Jatoba*: It's OK.
Che Chen: It's OK
*These species are themselves stable, but I add an asterisk since these are tropical species and you have no fucking clue if the companies that logged these non-threatened trees decided to build a road across "Last Grove of the Threatened" or "We live here - Last habitat of a forgotten insect species". Of the tropical species only Che Chen escapes that clause since it's generally harvested from countries with less...controversial harvesting practices.
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