> On Dec 7, 2017, at 15:12 , scott grandstaff  wrote:
> 
> Did you ever carve yew wood? Pacific yew?
> Its weird. Its not so hard but its ridiculously tough. A drawknife cuts, but
then it wants to
> blow out.

Yeah, and I hated it. I'm no handle-carving master like you,
but I made a decent mallet handle from some kiln-dried 
Pacific yew, and then it finally cracked and broke. My
bow saw (also Pacific yew) has been holding up pretty well,
but the stuff was like working OLD rock-hard Doug fir.

I'd be scared to make a bow out of the stock I had, but it
had a lot of crappy short grain and shakes.

Adam