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AndrewS:
Hey, I wanna present you a bow I made of Osage. I like the Holmegaard bows and so this one is a Osage Holmegaard!!!
She is 63" NTN and pulls 49lbs @27". She is backed with cherrybark, the handle is cherrybarkwrapped and the last 4 inches to the tiny bone tips are also wrapped with cherrybark. She has obviously no stringfollow and she is a good shooter I think.

Hope you like her....

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AndrewS:
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welch2:
Nice one I really like the look. Can you explain the bark collecting and appllying procees. I tried to wrap some nocks once with plum bark,and it didn't come out anything like that!

Ralph

sagitarius boemoru:
More like regular flatbow to me (nice shape though). Why did you wrapped the bark on tips, when the purpose of this tip shape is actually to make them lighter?


Jaro

AndrewS:
Hi,

welch 2
you have to harvest the bark around the tree. It works fine from a dead tree. Normally I put the bark flat between two boards so it can dry flat  but for wrapping a handle or the tips the bark dry in my shop without making anything. The bark then looks like a spiral but in this fact it is easier to apply around the handle or limb.

 I have cleaned the bark with a scraper and steel wool and then i glued the bark with epoxy (in this case, other glue will work fine also) around the wood. At the start I overlapp it a little bit and then clamp it for fixing the bark. I wrapped it around and fixed the end with a clamp also. Next day I remove the clamps and clean the bark with steel wool.

I finished this bow with  several coats of tung-oil.

sagitarius ...

or more a Mollegabet-design? ;)
I had wrapped the bark around, cause there was failure in the wood of the upper limb that I want to secure. For optical reasons I had wrapped the other tips the same way.

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