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superdav95:
Too bad.  That would have been a sweet looking bow Ed.

Hamish:
Ed, I found a nice looking log like your's, with snakey side to side bends. It was about 18" dia. I was so stoked about the awesome staves I was going to get out of it, that is until I tried to split it. It didn't want to split, just busted apart, ruined. I couldn't even get billets out of it. Subsequent layers of growth rings, the grain grew in opposite directions.

I ended up slabbing the undamaged, unsplit section into 2" thick boards. Even then the sides of the grain tried to pull itself apart(despite several thick coats of pva glue). Still usable for boards despite the cosmetic splits, but no good for bows. :(

BowEd:
I see these type candidates for snaky bows in very large osage trees with trunks 3' across here.It's identified by the bark.Some large limbs way up in the tree also.
A bit of more work to get out of there but you never bow with wood sometimes.
Most times with osage the longitudal or length wise wood grain lines underneath the bark is more exaggerated than what the bark shows.
Scoring the log as deep as necessary before splitting is the best way to split these I've found.

RyanY:
Truly a remarkable amount of direction change. Thanks for sharing.

BowEd:
I'm no expert with these snaky bows but they always intrigue me.

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