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Bows / Re: Fire Hardening
« Last post by Marc St Louis on November 25, 2025, 10:45:25 am »
Not sure what you mean by "fire hardening".  Heat-treating is essentially the fire hardening of wood.  If not done properly though "heat-treating" can be nothing more than changing the surface wood's structure and that really does nothing for a bow.  Proper heat-treating of a bow is a process that takes several hours to do.  Osage and BL certainly benefit from heat-treating but they react a bit differently to heat and you have to keep a close watch on what's happening with the wood, I suspect it may have something to do with the oils in the wood
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Primitive Skills / Re: stinky gelatin/hide glue
« Last post by Eric Krewson on November 25, 2025, 10:03:45 am »
All hide glue smells, I had used commercial hide glue initially before I switched to Knox. The commercial stuff had a stink to it when it was wetted, I knew Knox was real hide glue when I wetted it and had the same funky smell as the stuff I had used used before.

Your Knox is just fine.
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Bows / Re: Hopefully Worth the Effort
« Last post by Eric Krewson on November 25, 2025, 09:55:15 am »
The guy who found the bow in Chattanooga bought it, I letter all of my bows so he tracked my name down and asked me about the bow. I keep a log book on the bows that I have made but the glue line in the handle was a dead give away on this one. URAC 185 was the most amazing glue I ever used, I used it in this bow fix.

The bow as found in Chattanooga;

 
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Bows / Re: Tiller check
« Last post by Pappy on November 25, 2025, 09:51:44 am »
Looks mighty good to me also, with that little wave in the right limb it is easy to be fooled, I usually look at it from both sides and that will tell the story. :)
 Pappy
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Bows / Re: Hopefully Worth the Effort
« Last post by Eric Krewson on November 25, 2025, 09:48:29 am »
Arvin's patch leaves a lot of non bending wood below the patch to keep the handle section stable.

I would be surprised if your patch doesn't turn loose, you removed a LOT of the strength of the handle, I hope I am wrong. Even non bending handles stress and bend some even if it is a small amount. I have tried patches in the limbs, the patches would hold up for a couple of years and then turn lose.

I glued patches into this this handle just of see if I could get away with it because the rest of the stave was really good osage, I bamboo backed the bow to add a another layer of stability to the handle. I sold the bow cheaply, 15 years later it surfaced in an archery shop in Chattanooga, still in shootable condition

I started with this;
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Bows / Re: Big Osage tree
« Last post by Pappy on November 25, 2025, 09:48:03 am »
Yep Clint is the Osage king in my mind, I got a couple of them staves from that  100 + stave tree.  :)
 Pappy
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Primitive Skills / Re: Life is good
« Last post by Pappy on November 25, 2025, 09:45:31 am »
No Yot for me WB, didn't eat this cat either but have eat Bob Cat back strap, Eddie Parker brought some to a hog hunting camp one time, it wasn't bad but I didn't go back for seconds. Ya that would be cool Bob, wished I was a sewer, may talk to Becki Parker and try and make a trade.  :) Got to get it stretched and tanned first. Going to try and brain tan , I have done some mink/coon and they turned out OK, tough to brain tan , hair on or at least it has been for me but this hide is pretty thing so we will see how it goes. :)
 Pappy
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Shooting and Hunting / Re: 2nd for te year
« Last post by Pappy on November 25, 2025, 09:35:34 am »
Thanks Guys, ya glad to be back to somewhat normal BJ.  :)
 Pappy
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Shooting and Hunting / Re: First for the year
« Last post by Pappy on November 25, 2025, 09:33:58 am »
Thanks guys, ya Little John I usually manage a deer,just can't seem to put together an Elk.  ??? ;) :)
 Pappy
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Bows / Re: Big Osage tree
« Last post by Eric Krewson on November 25, 2025, 09:32:38 am »
I make the first split on the bigger osage logs with a chainsaw, after you get them in half the rest splits with wedges pretty easily. You may loose a little wood that crosses a wavy grain at the chainsaw split but spending 10 minutes apposed to up to an hour or more or so pounding wedges always looked like a fair tradeoff to me.

I always had access to a lot of osage and only split staves for myself to use so a very small loss didn't matter. I always made the chain saw split through the worst part of the log that had tight rings and wind shakes so I wouldn't be able to split the same area with wedges and sledge hammer and gain much in the way of useable wood. 
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