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First try at Osage

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Muskyman:
Not sure what you mean by (dib) ….And I’m planning on rawhide for the back. If you have checked out my post on chasing a ring it will be obvious to you as to why I’m putting a backing on it.

superdav95:
Looks good mike.  Keep us posted on your progress.  Rawhide is the way to go.  It’s fairly cheep and easy enough to do to provide protection.  I’d use tp3 if you’ve got it.  Just get the rawhide good and soft and wet.  Towel dry then coat it and the back of the bow with tb3 and apply the rawhide.  I do half at a time like many others here do.  Lay the hide down on your bow back as you would glue it.  Size it up for length you want and trim it.  Apply glue to one half of hide and one side of your bow lay it down.   Then fold the unglued half over on to the half you just glued down and repeat with glue applied to both limb and hide.  Pretty easy.  You can prestretch it even if you want to and wrap it with some strips of old t shirt material or something that breathe but still hold it down.  Some guys back string the bow then apply them.  While the wraps are on I use my thumbs to smooth out any areas of excess glue or spots were it bubbles and work them out to the sides.  I do this entire length of bow to get it all down good.    I take my wraps off after about an hour or so to inspect it.  You can leave them on too bunt any pattern left from the wraps become more permanent the longer you leave the wraps on and the glue fully dries.  Taking them off before fully dry gives you an opportunity to smooth out some of those patterns or line in the hide surface.  Best of luck with it. 

bradsmith2010:
like the rawhide too

Muskyman:
Going to try and order some rawhide after work and voting tonight. I’m assuming I should put it on before I tiller? Looking forward to getting it together and seeing how it turns out.

superdav95:
I’m sure you can do it after too but I tiller mine then back.  Any fine tuning after is usually slight. 

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