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JD

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My Osage Bow
« on: March 01, 2009, 11:37:02 am »
The website where I posted this bow is down, so I thought I post my Osage here so my friends can see my Osage bow. 



Offline burn em up chuck

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Re: My Osage Bow
« Reply #1 on: March 01, 2009, 11:50:56 am »
well done,tiller looks pretty good.

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Offline sailordad

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Re: My Osage Bow
« Reply #2 on: March 01, 2009, 11:53:39 am »
not bad however i think i would get it bending above and below the handle some more.
the first 6 inches or so out of each fade looks stiff yet.
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Offline OldBow

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Re: My Osage Bow
« Reply #3 on: March 01, 2009, 11:58:00 am »
Pretty nice...others are giving good advice. Any thoughts of submitting this for March Bow of the Mont?
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nickf

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Re: My Osage Bow
« Reply #4 on: March 01, 2009, 02:08:23 pm »
I'm glad to see you're into bowmaking!
here's some tillering advice. red means stop, green means go ;)



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Offline Ryano

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Re: My Osage Bow
« Reply #5 on: March 01, 2009, 02:34:27 pm »
The left limb apears to be hingeing from the corner of your window to the pvc pipe. You need to get the right inner limb working some more near the fade. Good luck!  :)
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JD

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Re: My Osage Bow
« Reply #6 on: March 01, 2009, 02:45:02 pm »
Thanks for the advice, I'm going get you a better pic of the bow, the bow is not straight.

JD

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Re: My Osage Bow
« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2009, 09:00:33 pm »


This bow was very hard to tiller because the limbs had a lot of character, the limbs were twisted so the tiller may look off.  However, with all the defects, the bow draws great and shoot very well.



Thanks for the suggestions. 

Offline Justin Snyder

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Re: My Osage Bow
« Reply #8 on: March 01, 2009, 11:34:34 pm »
It does have a lot of knots in it.  Pretty well done, keep it up.  Justin
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