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Removing bark from winter osage

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Jim Davis:
I'm 74. At the rate I  make bows now, I look at your haul and think, I've got all the bows I need. I'm glad I'm not facing that pile of work!

I haven't counted, but I must have at least a dozen bows ranging from 25 to 50 pound pull. Every twice in a seldom I teach somebody how to make a bow. But the fever to make one after the other has cooled.

bentstick54:
That’s my plan guys. 1 at a time as the body allows lol. I’m only 68, but the body ain’t what it used to be.
I just took a break to build a storage rack in the basement so I can quick leaning them up in a corner. It gave me an easy project, while my muscles recuperated for the cutting, splitting and hauling.

Jim, I’m hoping this will be the last time I have to go through this stage. Being a hobbyist bowyer, I might make 2 or 3 a winter after hunting season, so I was just wanting to put up enough for any future use I may have to pass the cold winter months.

bjrogg:
Good plan.

And years later when you really don’t feel like debarking and reducing those rock hard staves you will be very happy there a few there that already have all that work done already.

Bjrogg

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