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Chasing a ring
Muskyman:
Bjrogg, I’ve got the old eyes thing too. I’ve got about 4 or 5 pairs of glasses hanging right on a wire by my workbench and use the thicker ones for my close up work..
What’s the opinions about maybe a elb with thi Osage limb it’s probably a little less than 70 inches in length. Or could I make a flat bow with it
Muskyman:
Well I made some more firewood, I guess I did anyway. Started out chasing a ring on this Osage limb and got about half way through it and it was going great.. then when I just got past the handle area there was a little funny spot and when I got past it I noticed I had gotten into the ring below my target ring.. thought okay I read something that said I could change to a different ring at the handle if the handle doesn’t bend.. so I kept going and next thing I’m into the lower ring. At that point I just quit out of frustration. If I can get back onto a solid ring and take it back to the handle area will that fly if I put a piece on the belly side so it doesn’t bend there or it it indeed firewood. This is the limb
bjrogg:
Yes chase the lowest ring you are on back to the handle. You can switch rings there if you have to.
I think you should be able to get almost any kind of bow you want out of that limb. It’s always surprising how little Osage is needed to make a bow
Having said that I don’t really have a lot to go on. But the rings look good to me and seems wide enough although a little hard to tell for sure from picture.
Bjrogg
Badger:
I like to keep the bevel down on my draw knife when chasing rings, it keeps it from digging in.
Muskyman:
Bjrogg that limb is about 1&1/2 inches wide and about the same for the thickness, maybe a little less at the handle area, and right at the handle it kind of has what I’ll call a gull wing shape. That’s where I lost the original ring I was chasing. I’m going to try to get back onto another ring and go from there and see what happens. My original thought was to practice on this piece and take it to about floor tiller and then put it away to dry.
And Badger I do keep the bevel down down. I’m not sure what I did but as I came up over the bottom of the gull wing shape on the second half out of the handle area I just blew it I guess. All I know from sure is I had went down into the ring below the one I was chasing.. I think that the growth ring got thinner in that area, not really sure. My lighting is not the best where my vise is at and I’m thinking I’ll get better lighting for that area and hope that that helps..
Thanks,
Mike
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