Update:
Jhimis Khadwi is in the Find menu.
Target him and say, "stretching dowels"
Jhimis Khadwi says, "Aye, I have a few left, but they are a big seller right now and I don't know when I'm going to get more in stock. Perhaps we can barter for a set. If you can gather two small owlbear claws and show me your apprentice's cloak, I'll guess that I can justify given you a set of dowels. I'll also be able to make some earrings for my girlfriend. I'm sure she'll love that."
Getting the Small Owlbear Claws:
You WILL need a tracker. The Owlbear Cubs spawn in the area between the two roads (leading to Shar Vahl and the road leading to the Owlbear cave to where they join by the river). Both of mine dropped around the /loc of 1365.53, 1547.00, 158.00. Once you begin killing Owlbear Cubs, you will find in the spawn cycle: an owlbear grappler and an owlbear razorbeak. My claws dropped from cubs, so cannot confirm drops from anything else.
The Trick:
I spent several days and numerous hours tracking down and killing Owlbear cubs, etc. with no luck. I logged in my shaman and on the first kill of a cub, got claws #1. It was only a few kills later that I got the second set of claws. My suggestion is to get any Vah Shir class BUT beastlord to hunt for the claws and then log in the beastlord to loot the claws.
Edited, May 13th 2013 7:47am by TripsieD