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osage board bows: 2 at once
adb:
Hey, Scott
Nice looking osage boards!
Also, your yew Holmegaard looks great. The tiller looks very nice. What # did it end up at?
I wouldn't use cherry to back osage, either. Too weak. It does make not bad belly wood. I've made a few maple backed black cherry bows, and they turned out well.
Carry on, you're making good progress!
radius:
The adb...the holmie ended up around 35#...pretty light...but that's okay since i'm giving it to my son who's 13.
grantmac:
--- Quote from: radius on March 30, 2008, 01:19:53 am ---sure, Grant, that'd be cool! Yeah, I don't know who gave you those sticks you gave to me, but they are definitely not Osage.
You coming into town anytime soon?
Scott
--- End quote ---
I'm probably going to the Langford Windsor plywood sometime in the next few days, they got me some Ipe. Takedown longbow here I come!
Grant
radius:
OK ... Question for you guys?
Why do i never hear of anyone using osage as a backing strip? Osage backed Osage? It has such a great reputation....do i need to back it, really?
I won't use the cherry, and I won't use the black walnut (obviously) but GrantMac has a couple strips of hickory I can pick up sometime this week...but maybe there are other backing options as well....
El Destructo:
I would not even think of bending that Board without backing it....Hedge wont take it..unles it is edge grained or biased cut....I would at least use Rawhide....but I would say Boo or Hickory as a Minimum
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