Thread: Bow wood

Unfortunately the only wood between Muswellbrook and Singo is over 500,000 years old. It's black and falls to bits when you try and cut it on your table saw.
It does burn pretty good though.

I hear you just plug into the ground for power there.

I work at a native plant nursery and was asking my boss about hickory and he reckone there is a native hickory; Goya (spelling?). I know it and it isn't black wattle (Acacia). I can't seem to find it on the web. Any ideas?

This may head you in the right direction
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f14/au...hickory-22667/

I found that last night, but just came up with results:

Guioa semiglauca - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (wild quince)


Its not a carya (hickory) but a sapindaceae, as is the tulip wood mentioned. I'll hunt some down and check on its properties, but from memory its quite brittle - no need for a bow and arrow anyway now as the bark from this stuff was used by local kooris to poison fish.

This was great help:

Trees of Australia GHI

Lancewood (acacia shirleyi) is supposed to good. I've just cut a log last week for a luthier who wanted some to make a long-bow for his young bloke (the only non-musical kid in the tribe apparently) Lancewood's elasticity is well known by the cockies around here which is why it's the 1st choice for yard rails.