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Title: Osage Recurve 50# 28"
Post by: hochgaertner on December 29, 2013, 08:57:34 am

Hello,
I want to show you my new bow.
Spliced Osage ntn 57" - two layers of sinew backed with birk barch.
She pulls 52# at 28". Hard but fast. (Now 50# and not so hard)
The tips are from laburnum and lilac.

Hope you enjoy.

Greetings from Bavaria
Peter

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: nefftie on December 29, 2013, 09:08:45 am

Feiner Bogen =)

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: RyanR on December 29, 2013, 09:19:13 am

Nice looking bow.

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: Gsulfridge on December 29, 2013, 09:52:43 am

That's a good looking bow right there!! :)

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: Pat B on December 29, 2013, 10:09:49 am

Very nice bow. Well done!

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: Cameroo on December 29, 2013, 10:11:13 am

Looks very nice, I love that profile :)

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: half eye on December 29, 2013, 10:22:36 am

Really well done, sir. Would it be too much effort to get a closer look at the bark covering because that is especially nice?
rich

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: swamp yeti on December 29, 2013, 10:27:07 am

Man that is nice I will wrestle you for it.

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: burchett.donald on December 29, 2013, 10:34:54 am

  I would like to see those tips...Beautiful bend on that bow.

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: IdahoMatt on December 29, 2013, 10:38:56 am

Nice job.  Looks like you got a good bend on that one.

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: Badger on December 29, 2013, 01:20:15 pm

   Nice one, didn't appear to take hardly and set at all.

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: Danzn Bar on December 29, 2013, 01:47:13 pm

Very nice looking recurve.  I sure hope the one I'm working on now turns out that nice.
DBar

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: hochgaertner on December 29, 2013, 02:04:04 pm

Hello, I´m glad you like my bow. Thank you very much for your interest,
I  have 4  (not best quality) pics from the tips and the birch bark.

Peter

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: Dan K on December 29, 2013, 02:10:11 pm

Very well done indeed!

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: Arrowind on December 29, 2013, 02:15:49 pm

Looks great!  Nice Bow!

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: half eye on December 29, 2013, 03:16:11 pm

Thanks for the additional pics.....very nice on the bark, would make a damned fine hunting bow right there.
rich

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: dwardo on December 29, 2013, 04:54:12 pm

Great bow and backing.  8)

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: Marc St Louis on December 29, 2013, 08:06:44 pm

Very nice bow.  I would have thinned the Birch bark even more.  When I do Birch bark over sinew I thin the bark to less than 1 /32" thick

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: SLIMBOB on December 29, 2013, 08:19:09 pm

Classic looking shape on this bow.  Well done Sir!

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: medicinewheel on December 30, 2013, 03:22:59 am

Sehr schön!
Gruß aus der Eifel.
Frank

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: chamookman on December 30, 2013, 05:28:33 am

WOW - very nice! Classic lines there, this one really talks to Me ! Bob

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: smoke on December 30, 2013, 08:56:47 am

Sweet!  I have been thinking about trying the same thing . . . good inspiration for me!

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: BowSlayer on December 30, 2013, 11:37:47 am

it's a very nice bow but there is one spot just by the right fade where it is bending quite a bit. maybe it's just me. but that's just me being really picky.

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: mwosborn on December 30, 2013, 11:42:21 am

Very nice - well done.

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 52# 28"
Post by: hochgaertner on December 30, 2013, 02:10:30 pm

Hello,
first of all I´m very happy for your friendly comments and I´m pleased that you like my bow.
@BowSlayer: I gave a third layer of a long back sinew from  the grip to the limbs to make this part safe.
But, you are right. I worked again on the midlimbs to get a more equal bending. So the bow lost
2# weight. But he is more comfortable to pull now.

Thank you all again

Peter

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 50# 28"
Post by: BowSlayer on December 30, 2013, 04:27:34 pm

looks alot better but maybe some more working on the mid- outer limb. on both limbs. but that's being really reallly really picky and im sure it will be fine. but to be fair it's alot better than i can do.  ;) great bow.

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 50# 28"
Post by: Badly Bent on January 03, 2014, 11:35:17 pm

Almost missed this one, glad I didn't. Very nicely done bow, I really like the looks of it.

Title: Re: Osage Recurve 50# 28"
Post by: H Rhodes on January 04, 2014, 08:53:55 am

Excellent tiller!  That backing looks wonderful.