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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: OsageWhisper on February 01, 2014, 12:42:39 pm

Title: Osage blanks
Post by: OsageWhisper on February 01, 2014, 12:42:39 pm

Anyone know where I can buy Osage blanks. I don't have the tools to take a tree down to a stave but I can rasp out a bow if I have a roughed out bow.

Thanks always

Title: Re: Osage blanks
Post by: Wiley on February 01, 2014, 01:13:56 pm

I would try to find the least knotty osage specimen I could find if I were you. I'm sure that with the proper application of force using nothing more than a hatchet or axe, some wedges made from a dense hardwood, and maybe a hammer I could break a small tree into staves by opening up a crack with the axe/hatchet and making that crack expand through the wood by pounding wedges into it. Some steel wedges are obviously more durable, but you can split wood with wood wedges and something to hit them with.

Title: Re: Osage blanks
Post by: JW_Halverson on February 01, 2014, 01:24:12 pm

I have split osage with a couple of deer antler tines and a knot of firewood!  Osage isn't hard to split.  A hatchet isn't hard to find and you can do a lot of shaping when it is sharp and your blows are well aimed and controlled.  Less force, more control.

Title: Re: Osage blanks
Post by: koan on February 01, 2014, 01:35:57 pm

Rattlestick Bows, Pine Hollow Longbows, Rudderbows all have what your lookin for. They all advertise in P.A... If you have anything to trade I would post something in the trading post here.. Folks always got staves to trade here... Brian

Title: Re: Osage blanks
Post by: ohma2 on February 01, 2014, 03:39:01 pm

What wiley said!!!

Title: Re: Osage blanks
Post by: stringstretcher on February 01, 2014, 05:31:36 pm

You might give Matt Wirwicki a PM.

Title: Re: Osage blanks
Post by: bubby on February 01, 2014, 06:14:39 pm

x2 matt is great to deal with