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Help with heat corrections on osage. /. Updated

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superdav95:
So glad it worked out for ya.  Looks good.  Are you gonna back with snake skins?

Selfbowman:
Not fond of snake bows but that’s a beauty! Well done!

bentstick54:
Since I had 5# or 6# to lose and wanting another 2” to gain in draw length I decided to listen to Dave and try to get some more bend in mid limb of the snakey right limb. I concentrated the major of my time there, occasionally adjusting the left limb as the tiller changed some. The right limb looks better to me, but still looks a little stiff mid limb. I got it down to 44#@28”, about where I wanted. I shot 50 arrows through it today with no noticeable difference in tiller or draw weight. Immediately after unstringing still holding about 1/2” to 5/8” set in both limbs. I like the way it’s feeling at the shot so far. I want to shoot another 100-150 arrows through it before finishing to make sure it nothing changes, and it still wants to be a bow.

Dave, if it holds up, I might put some snake skins on it if I can find some reasonably priced ones. But not until I’ve shot it a bunch.

superdav95:
Well done sir!  I’d call that a success with that little set.  If it shoots good mission accomplished.  It looks great to me.  Sometimes we can mess with things too much and end up with less of a positive result.  This is something I catch myself doing.  I’d be very happy and proud with a bow like that.  Well done. 

bentstick54:
Thanks Dave. I figured for what I started with, if it holds up long term, I won 90% of the battle on this one. I’ll let the tree win the other 10% lol. Hopefully today I’ll shoot it in some more and see how it does.
One weird thing about this stave is that about where the snakey spot in the right limb is the growth rings get thinner and ends up with about twice as many out to the tip. I don’t remember ever noticing this before, and not sure what would have caused such a big difference in the growth ring difference.

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