: Gary, if you are a novice woodworker, Buy a nice straight 2x4 from your local
: hardware store. $2.75 is alot easier to learn on than a $20.00 cedar 2x4.
: If you like your results then start experimenting, with laminating etc.
: the up side to making one out of pine or hem-fir is you will always have a
: back-up once you make a nice one.

: Have fun, Elliott

Thanks, I'm sure that is sound advice. After I posted this, I searched the BBS and found some detailed discussions about wood types for a Greenland stick. Everything from scrounging the dumpster to using exotic laminated layups. It seems that nearly any wood will do. Clearly, the first one won't be my last.

I'm going to head out to the lumberyard and bring something home today and start carving.