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osage stave coloration.

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Selfbowman:
Hamish I’m with you on this one. All though depending on how dense the lighter is. It might be interesting to see a light one on the back and darker on the belly.

superdav95:
Thanks guys.  I don’t have the access to Osage like I do other white woods so I don’t want to waist good Osage or even medium quality Osage.  I’ve never seen anything like this.  It dose it appear to run the entire length of the stave which leads me to think some sort of disease that got to the tree which it recovered from.  The bark looks normal too and doesn’t look like it suffered any weird damage or wind damage or anything.  Anyway I’ll let it season and see.  Thanks for the responses.  It’s 76” long so for curiosity I may cut off a little and see how dense that lighter heartwood is in comparison to the darker stuff. 

Eric Krewson:
It is nothing more than mineral streaks although a bit more pronounced than any wood I have used so far.

Here is an example of a bow I made from mismatched billets, I picked them to use because they looked the same with 20 years of darkening. Once I went down a grain or two on the backs the difference became very apparent. The top billet has a similar dark streak in it.

superdav95:
Well that’s a good sign and gives some hope for it being decent too. That also looks kinda cool too.  Thanks Eric!

Selfbowman:
Interesting Eric. Just asking  did the two billets finish out the same when tillered? Did one seem more dense than the other. Ok and not that it would tell me anything  but what kind of minerals might do this?

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