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Character Osage Build - Now a Takedown - Finished!
gstoneberg:
I worked for awhile tonight but the bow looks barely different. The limbs are thinner and the crooked limb is beginning to bend. The other limb is still a club, though I thinned it a lot. This is the slow part of the process, but my favorite part. Still, there are problems. After each time I floor tiller the crooked limb a ring on the fade-out pops loose. Unless the light is just right you don't notice. I'm not sure whether it's a fatal problem or not yet.
Definitely going to be some heat bending on this one.
Gonna start to reduce the tips here pretty quick.
George
rattlesnake:
wow,,, that is going to be super cool!!....snake
bobnewboy:
There's character, and there's character :o . You sure are one crazy guy to take on such a distorted piece of wood. It will of course be amazing if you can pull it off though, and so good luck!
gstoneberg:
I've been a little hesitant to go much further because it meant I had to make the crooked part bend. Well, since it snowed here in Texas today and the ladies decided to watch a Lifetime movie marathon...I was motivated to go out to the shop. I'm to the point of cutting nocks and putting a long string on the bow for tillering. I hadn't used the tillering setup since we moved and I cannot find my stuff so I'm putting off more work until I can go get a pully and do it right. I did take a couple pictures, though there isn't much change at this stage. I brought the bow in to show my wife and took the pictures in here. She declared my odds for success at close to zero. Don't you love positive support like that? I'm even more motivated now...maybe that's why she said it??
This bow has an odd feature on that bent limb, there's actually fade-outs going both directions in that crook. The wood rings seemed to stack up there but so far I'm nervous about removing the excess under that knot. As I thin that portion to get it bending it cuts the growth rings in the transition out into the limb. It's odd, and visible in these shots.
I think the fade-out in thin growth ring bows is has a unique beauty, I couldn't help but take a picture. Looks like I have to get those last 2 rings back in the center of the limb.
Hopefully, the next pictures will show tillering. Both limbs are bending on the floor, but it's impossible to get a feel for how even the crook bending is on the floor. Not sure I'll see it from the side either, but I'm hoping.
George
woodstick:
have faith. i do in ya i wana see a pic at full draw gana be saweet.
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