Hickory or Pecan for go bars?!

[John Delacour]

At 5:16 PM -0800 1/20/02, Joseph Garrett wrote:
>Egad, if you have a good source for either of those woods, please list it.
>Here in the Pac.N.W. that kind of wood is impossible to find. And, if you
>can find it, you don't have much choice, either. Hickory is THE wood for
>wooden threads. I would really like to get some 4/4 and 6/4 in stock.
>Anyone?

According to Wolfenden its also THE wood for hammer shanks and I've 
seen it used on a few old German uprights, though most of them used 
maple or even birch, as well as another very nice wood that I've 
never identified.

Over here good (knocking) hammers often have hickory hafts, but thats 
the only time you ever see it.

I've used maple and beech for go-bars, but ash, though good enough 
for hammer hafts and scythes and things, will not recover fully from 
bending.  Ramin seems to be OK.

JD