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Eric Garza:
Where do people get nice osage belly cores these days? I plan to make a hickory-backed osage laminated bow.

Selfbowman:
May be the hard silly way but I make a selfbow blank and apply boo to the back.

Eric Krewson:
Yep, every backed bow I ever made started out as a stave I flattened the back on.

superdav95:
Ya this is how I’ve been doing it lately too.  It allows you to take a decent piece of wood/stave with a questionable back and make it better.  Because I have no shortage of staves at the moment this is my attitude.  I guess if I was hurting for staves I might think differently. 

willie:
I have been thinking just the opposite. the belly is where bows have to work the hardest.
Find the primo stuff for the belly and apply.  Dunno where to source the osage slats tho, but I like the idea of quarter sawn

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