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Osagebow Holmegaard-style

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Hillbilly:
Sweet! Good looking bow.

comix:

--- Quote from: AndrewS on May 05, 2007, 07:21:27 pm ---HI comix,
you mean in 2 weeks, when you say some day,eh? ;D

--- End quote ---

Jep. Hope you'll taken 'em all with you... big car then you will need ... ;)

tom sawyer:
Very cool bow, that bark is a nice touch.  I can see the skinny tips, more modest than some people's versoin of the Holmegaard but I think the actual Holmegaaard was not so pronounced in this respect.  In any case you thinned the tips and left them stiff, this to me is the advantage of a Holmegaard.  And you worked with osage, which let you do a relatively short bow for additional cast.  Very nice job.

What sort of failure of wood did you experience?  Was it in the area that went from bending to non-bending in the area of the outer limb?  I've had trouble with that area on this design myself.

AndrewS:
Hi Lennie, thanks for your compliment!

The problem was a crack running lenght from the side into the limb. After working down the limb to the dimensions of the bow you see, the crack was still there. So I insure the small limb (near the nock) with the wrapping of cherrybark.

mamba:
Great looking bow Andrew.

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