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Dean Marlow:
O.K. fellows here is that crazy Osage stave that I have been showing you and I am going to see if we can get a bow out of it. I have had this for a couple of years now and it is time to either work on it or let somebody else give it a go. It is 58" long and fairly straight. It is very clean without even a pin knot showing so far. It does have problems in one limb with several vertical cracks showing. We Will have to see if I can remove them as we go along. It may just end up as a walking stick.

danny f:
i cant wait to see how this works out, good luck.

PEARL DRUMS:
Tear it up Dean-o!

Dean Marlow:
Here are the main tools I will use with farriers rasp and the Nicholson 49 getting the biggest work out of all that you see. I was thinking around 1-1/2" wide to midlimb then taper down to narrow tips. But like I said these nasty cracks will tell us what we can and can't do. Now I want everybody to chime in on this to see if we can get a bow out of it.

Adam:
Oh man, I can't wait to see this one!  That's an amazing piece of wood.  It should make a beautiful bow!

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