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4dog:
didnt know yours blew too Rob..we could have sword fought with our sticks...though mine went around corners!!

PAHunter:

--- Quote from: 4dog on May 14, 2014, 08:36:19 am ---didnt know yours blew too Rob..we could have sword fought with our sticks...though mine went around corners!!

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haha Ya bud, more wood for the fire! 

ABrown:
Thanks for the info guys. still chasing that growth ring. Don't know a lot about how to on Osage, but it sure is a pretty piece of Osage. Wide growth rings and pretty straight too. I'll try to put some pictures of here so you can monitor my progress. I'm going to shoot for somewhere around 60# @ 27 inches and 61 to 62 inches long with a shelf. 

turtle:

--- Quote from: ABrown on May 14, 2014, 07:00:35 pm ---Thanks for the info guys. still chasing that growth ring. Don't know a lot about how to on Osage, but it sure is a pretty piece of Osage. Wide growth rings and pretty straight too. I'll try to put some pictures of here so you can monitor my progress. I'm going to shoot for somewhere around 60# @ 27 inches and 61 to 62 inches long with a shelf. 

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For your first bow i would suggest going longer if you can. 62" with an 8" handle/riser section leaves you with 54" of working limbs. Very doable with osage but your tiller needs to be near perfect to get it out to 27" draw. I would suggest at least 65 or 66 inches for your first if your stave is long enough. If 62 is as long as you can get then i would suggest making it a bendy handle bow ( the more working limb you have, the more forgiving the bow is of less than perfect tiller). You could also make your first out of a cheap board to get tillering practice before trying the osage. Any way you decide to go be sure to post lots of pictires and ask lots of questions. Good luck.

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