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10 years later... my Osage is ready.
superdav95:
--- Quote from: Muskyman on October 17, 2023, 09:56:32 pm ---What my shop needs is a dust collection system. Everything is covered with dust and the floor is taking on a Osage orange cast to it. It did start out like the picture above but that didn’t last. Started out a shed for me and my wife but I kinda took it over and now my wife says I have to build one for her. :BB
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Dust collection is great investment. I will never go back to a shop without one. All that dust your breathing in will be hazardous to your health.
lenador:
I try to stay pretty organized but it always turns chaotic. I have to stop myself and put everything away and start again.
lenador:
Cut in nocks and put a shorter string on it with basically no brace and continues tillering. One side doesn't seem to want to bend further towards the tip despite taking material only from the past half this while time. I think it may be because of the slight twist in the tip so I'm going to attempt to straight that and see what it looks like after.
My goal was 50# and I'm at 50# at 25" right now so I should be around that as long as things don't go arstray.
Here is one at my 28" draw with no brace. The bottom limb is what I'm not liking.
lenador:
Jumped into some straightening of the limb before I moved forward tillering. I probably should have done this earlier but my inexperience is showing. First I wanted to straighten both tips out because both had a good flip to them that made the limbs want to twist when tillering.
Next I wanted to fix a prop twist on one of the tips. Used an old pipe wrench and some leather with the heat gun for this.
Right now it's on the bench clamped and cooling doing the final alignment of the tips.
Then my main focus is going to be getting the outer limbs working more and getting some shape to the nocks. I ordered another cheap Amazon string to atleast get it braced to finish the tiller
Muskyman:
Looking good so far. For me bending limbs is kind of scary. I’m starting to get a little more comfortable with it but it still freaks me out a little.
Good luck.
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