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GregB:
I know one osage stave you have that wasn't taken down to a growth ring... ;D

Stave may be the wrong term, it was more like half a log! ;)

Justin Snyder:

--- Quote from: GregB on May 28, 2007, 06:22:59 pm ---I know one osage stave you have that wasn't taken down to a growth ring... ;D

Stave may be the wrong term, it was more like half a log! ;)

--- End quote ---
No sapwood on that piece.  I had to split it off when I got home.  All that rain I drove through on the way home must have upped the MC.  It had been drying since 2005, but when I got home it started to check.  I got a few staves out of it. But I did loose a little good wood.  :'( Justin

OldBow:
Good for you, Trapper, for challenging the status quo.

Trapper:
No Don, I wasnt trying to do that , it was just something that I always wondered, because you never see anyone post one or anything, I was just trying to see if anyone else used it much, I seem to look for things that aint there, or shood be there and aint. And another reason is I cut a runner off of a big osage tree that had fallen over in a ice storm 8 yrs. ago and this runner was about 4 in. at 8 yrs. old the growth rings are very thick in it, and I split it so I would get two good staves out of it and the limbs are gonna have some sapwood on them, the sapwood is about 3/4ths of a in. thick,  I will keep yall informed. Thanks for all the comments guys .  Maybe I will make it about half and half, there is only 7 rings in this shoot and its 4 and 1/2 in. at the base and four in. at the end and its 7 foot long and chalk line strait    Trapper

Mountaineer:
Have made only one osage bow with a sapwood back,but it worked fine.Don't have any pics because I gave it to a Cherokee friend of mine at a pow wow a couplke years ago.Cool little bow though and pretty darn fast.

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