I have made a three of this style curves, I got the idea after reading " From The Den of he Old Bowhunter" years ago. Styles tend to be reginal, one person sees a bow that someone made in their area and copies the style, soon there are a lot of bows in that area that are styled the same. Twin Oaks has a preferred style, I noticed that when I was up there for a few Classics years ago.
In the above mentioned book almost everyone in that group made bow with the tight curves, so I gave it a try. Turns out these are very nice shooting bows, the first one I made was my go to bow for many years.
Just about finished;
Very tiny tips;
Full draw;
The second one came in under poundage so I gave it to my friend Julia, she said this was the best shooting bow she had ever shot, she won everything with it shooting wood arrows, even a cash prize shooting against modern recurves and longbows who were shooting carbon arrows. Unfortunately she broke the tip off the bow during a stringing accident, I fixed it for her but the repair didn't hold up.
I made the third bow out of mismatched billets, this bow was an amazing shooter for about 30 arrows then the limbs would wimp out and go weak, my arrows would start to exhibit an overspined effect and hit left. If I unstrung the bow for a while, it came back to its former power again, but it would do the same after 30 arrows. I had never run into this before, I should have picked better wood to use instead of salvage wood of questionable quality.
Mismatched, the reason the splice is so high in the handle is I had one of those brain fs and cut the top limb off too short. I had to move the handle up to lengthen the top limb and balance the limbs.
I bent the wood with dry heat, it was 50-50 proposition, I popped a lot of splinters but being osage rich a failure wasn't a deal breaker.
Topic: Static Osage (Read 255 times)