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First try at Osage
Muskyman:
Good to know pearl drums. The rings are tiny, maybe a 1/16th or so. The violations are just little oval spots. Two of them. One is mid limb and the other is close to the fades. I hope it doesn’t break but I never thought this was going to be a long term bow but more of a way for me to practice making one. A kind of getting my feet wet thing. I’ve got 6-8 decent Osage staves drying out that I processed in late September. I wanted to try and chase a ring and make a bow so I dug this piece out of the scrap pile.
Just never could quite make it end to end on it chasing a ring. I might take one of my pieces with much thicker rings down to a really rough bow shape to speed the drying up a bit later this winter..
PEARL DRUMS:
All good plans you have in your head. You have the right idea roughing a bow out now. Give it 2-3 months and its ready, especially in the drier winter months. As far as this bow is concerned. I would shoot the snot out of it as-is and see what happens. I'd bet it wont break. Not always, but most often a bow that wants to break will break as soon as you start doing any major bending.
bradsmith2010:
rawhide would be nice,,even if its just in your head,, it looks good too,,
Will B:
Congrats on a nice Osage bow. You did a great job and got great advice here
Muskyman:
Thanks gentlemen. Yes I did get good advice. Appreciate everyone’s input. I’m learning a lot on this site about making bows. And I realize that I’ve got a very long road to travel. About the only thing I’ve got going for me is once I get a good one made I’ll be able to shoot it. Always an instinctive shooter and never cared for compound bows. Shot my recurve while almost everyone else had a compound. I remember well many years ago shooting in a 3D shoot a guy showed up with a Osage self bow. He let me look at it (un-strung) I still remember that bow and remember thinking how really cool that thing was. He wasn’t the maker, I think it was a guy from Jamestown, OH that made it for him. Any way never cared much for compound bows and I’m betting I can make a deer just as dead with my self built Osage or hickory bow.
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