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osage board bows: 2 at once
El Destructo:
Sounds like a Plan.......... these are Boards ....right....not Staves??
Board ....a Flat Piece of Hewn Wood...Kiln Dried...cut to Dimensions
Stave.....A Log Split into useable sized wedges used by Bowyers to make fancy.... expensive.... time consuming Firewood
>:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D >:D
radius:
yeah, these are boards.
I have no second thoughts or misgivings, either. Boards are good.
El Destructo:
Nope...Boards are fine.....I like Osage no matter how it comes......are you going to Boo Back them or maybe Hickory??? I once took a Hedge Board...and followed one ring and make a good Bow....but the Wood has to be a near perfect cut before this will work...
DanaM:
Wood is wood whether its a board or stave :)
radius:
Ok, here are some pictures of the wood i have to work with...as i said, 62x1.5x1.125...
one picture is of a piece only 9/16ths thick...it is for a perry reflex....
two on their side, one on its back...
a little fuzzy, but this shows the ring pattern
notice the great pattern on the rings!
here is a view of the grain pattern along the length...
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