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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Cardboard_Duck on June 15, 2013, 01:51:59 pm

Title: Osage bow :)
Post by: Cardboard_Duck on June 15, 2013, 01:51:59 pm: Pearl Drums showed up at my tent at the classic and threw a nice seasoned piece of osage at me. I've been slacking on the whole bow making thing ever since I found out making knives is so much fun :)

Anyways, I managed to split the piece he gave me into these-

(http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q744/cardboard_duck/WP_20130526_001_zpsff364768.jpg)

I chose the one on the left to be my first victim. It was actually really twisty and bumpy, but after two sessions on my caul this is what I have so far (This is my second osage so don't expect too much...)

(http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q744/cardboard_duck/WP_20130615_001_zps3766f253.jpg)

(http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q744/cardboard_duck/WP_20130615_003_zps91df51c1.jpg)

5" brace
(http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q744/cardboard_duck/WP_20130615_004_zps63fb990d.jpg)

Drawn to about 27ish I think
(http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q744/cardboard_duck/WP_20130615_005_zps5ef65625.jpg)

I still have to thin out the tips and pretty it up a little (which isn't much for me, I don't mind a few gouges or tool marks since its a tool and not a showpiece :o )

Right now it is about #55 at 28". 66" TtT and about 1.375 to 1.5 to whatever wide. There were some knots and stuff to go around and chop out so the width isn't really important ;D

How does the tiller look?
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Post by: mwosborn on June 15, 2013, 02:09:41 pm: I think the tiller is spot on. Nice work.
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Post by: SLIMBOB on June 15, 2013, 02:16:27 pm: Nice!
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Post by: PEARL DRUMS on June 15, 2013, 02:31:48 pm: You're a bit stiff midway on top duck. Bottom looks good.
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Post by: Cardboard_Duck on June 15, 2013, 02:49:04 pm: 10-4, I'll take a few more scrapes off the top limb, I see it now. It's weird, the stiff spot is the thinnest part....
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Post by: Josh B on June 15, 2013, 03:47:05 pm: Quote from: PEARL DRUMS on June 15, 2013, 02:31:48 pm
You're a bit stiff midway on top duck. Bottom looks good.

+ 1
Pearly- you must of really been slipping at the classic! :o. Everything you did while you were there was completely devastating to your rep! >:D. Good of you man!
BTW- its looking good Nick! Josh
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Post by: mullet on June 15, 2013, 06:24:52 pm: Dang it! I didn't know you were at the Classic. I'm going to a laid back Bow shoot in the morning if you want to go. 646-6121. $5, shoot 40 targets, no scoring, and free lunch. ;D
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Post by: mullet on June 15, 2013, 06:26:01 pm: And,, That is a sweet looking bow, love those kind of curves.
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Post by: bow101 on June 15, 2013, 06:50:00 pm: Quote from: PEARL DRUMS on June 15, 2013, 02:31:48 pm
You're a bit stiff midway on top duck. Bottom looks good.

Mmmm........ +2 my eye is getting better, I see what you mean.. ???
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Post by: osage outlaw on June 15, 2013, 09:59:23 pm: Looking good Duck.
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Post by: Cardboard_Duck on June 16, 2013, 01:02:38 pm: A few more pics -

(http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q744/cardboard_duck/WP_20130616_008_zps8457237f.jpg)

(http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q744/cardboard_duck/WP_20130616_009_zps1d6c93a4.jpg)

(http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q744/cardboard_duck/WP_20130616_010_zps542df3a3.jpg)

Complete with quite a few wind checks-
(http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q744/cardboard_duck/WP_20130616_013_zps10f31ff3.jpg)

And a hole :)
(http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q744/cardboard_duck/WP_20130616_015_zps7e641477.jpg)

I'll get a FD pic up when my lovely assistant finds enough time in her busy schedule to do so... :D
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Post by: Knapper on June 16, 2013, 02:44:32 pm: Looks very nice Duck!
Knapper
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Post by: TRACY on June 16, 2013, 02:51:11 pm: Looks like a keeper ;)

Tracy
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Post by: Cardboard_Duck on June 16, 2013, 06:06:53 pm: (http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q744/cardboard_duck/WP_20130616_017_zpsdb8927ad.jpg)

(http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q744/cardboard_duck/WP_20130616_018_zpsd44103b4.jpg)

(http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q744/cardboard_duck/WP_20130616_016_zpsf777fe76.jpg)

(http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q744/cardboard_duck/WP_20130616_019_zps81552770.jpg)

(http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q744/cardboard_duck/WP_20130616_020_zps82e83c89.jpg)

It's just sanded to 220, 0000 Steel wool and then I gave it the bees wax and orange oil bath. I think I got the flat spot as good as I am going to, there was a kink in that spot originally that I heated out. It ended up about #48 @ 28" after the fixing attempt and sanding. Oh and the tips are Brazilian walnut and the handle is jute, I love jute wrapped handles :)
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Post by: DGF on June 16, 2013, 11:25:34 pm: Look real nice. I like it!

-Dan
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Post by: Ken S on June 16, 2013, 11:30:50 pm: SWEET!!!!!! :)
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Post by: Jodocus on June 17, 2013, 03:53:24 am: Not ugly at all, I think. Rather pretty, actually.
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Post by: Pappy on June 17, 2013, 08:57:38 am: Good looking shooter. :) Nothing ugly about that. ;)
Pappy
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Post by: Rafael on June 17, 2013, 09:12:10 am: Nice character bow! I wish Osage grow here! But it grows far at the South in another country.
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Post by: SLIMBOB on June 17, 2013, 09:17:34 am: Nothing much prettier than a nice piece of Bodark with those kind of curves.
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Post by: okie64 on June 17, 2013, 09:34:57 am: Great looking bow duck!
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Post by: Cardboard_Duck on June 17, 2013, 09:42:26 am: Thanks for the compliments guys. I guess it's not ugly, it was just (&^(*^(&^ me off a little trying to get the bend just right :)
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Post by: PEARL DRUMS on June 17, 2013, 09:48:04 am: Sweet rig duck. Now you gotta' get after that other half and give your new bow a playmate! Bows don't like to be alone man.
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Post by: autologus on June 17, 2013, 10:01:22 am: Wow, if that is your definition of ugly I sure would like to see some of your pretty bows.

Grady
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Post by: Cardboard_Duck on July 13, 2013, 01:11:20 am: Well I got to surprise my brother and gave it to him at our family reunion on satuday :) He was stoked and plans on making meat with it this fall. I had some pictures of him with it but lost my camera... Oh well.
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Post by: Badly Bent on July 13, 2013, 08:56:03 am: That bows got style Duck. Good looker there, not the least bit ugly to me.
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Post by: Cardboard_Duck on July 14, 2013, 09:53:19 pm: Thanks BB :)

He told me he has put at least forty arrows a day through it and feeling more accurate each time ( he normally shoots one of those new fangled wheeley bows )
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Post by: Peacebow_Coos on July 14, 2013, 11:16:27 pm: Nice work man, gotta love those kinks and elbows ;) Orange oil and beeswax? Looks nice, do you apply it together? Hot? Do deer smell orange oil? ;)
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Post by: Cardboard_Duck on July 15, 2013, 12:02:13 am: I cheat >:D (http://i1357.photobucket.com/albums/q744/cardboard_duck/wax_zps5a99c75c.jpg)
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Post by: PEARL DRUMS on July 15, 2013, 03:11:04 pm: Quote from: Cardboard_Duck on July 13, 2013, 01:11:20 am
Well I got to surprise my brother and gave it to him at our family reunion on satuday :) He was stoked and plans on making meat with it this fall. I had some pictures of him with it but lost my camera... Oh well.

And that's exactly why I gave you two bows worth! Your a good man duck duck goose.
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Post by: David_Daugherty on July 15, 2013, 11:11:40 pm: Very nice looking bow. Just needs blood on it now ;)