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Offline Pat B

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Pole Bow (winter project #1)
« on: January 10, 2012, 09:50:51 pm »
  I decided to use this osage pole stave for a trade bow on TG. When I started a few days ago I had half of a 2" osage pole with just the bark taken off and the back sealed with shellac and the last 8" of the tips narrowed. Looked like this...




Here it is after a little wood removal and a little heat. There is a dogleg at one end with a knot there on the edge. I'm leaving the dogleg alone unless I need to make allignment adjustments. Even though this stave has natural reflex it wasn't even so I used the heat gun and some olive oil to even out the reflex. I reflexed each limb seperately. Here is one limb on the caul...




...and the end results...
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Offline Will H

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Re: Pole Bow
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2012, 09:57:29 pm »
Thats lookin great Pat! Cant wait to see how it turns out!
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Re: Pole Bow
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2012, 10:07:19 pm »
Looks good Pat.  I see lots of osage that size from guys selling fence spreaders down here.  Most aren't that straight though...  Never tried making a bow out of wood that small a diameter.  Looking forward to how it turns out for you.

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Offline Lee Slikkers

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Re: Pole Bow
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2012, 10:23:32 pm »
Neat project Pat, I can't tell from the pics but is all the sapwood removed or are you leaving that on?  Thanks~
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Re: Pole Bow
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2012, 10:32:44 pm »
Tah-dah! I cant wait to shoot it Pat! Err towards the light side of my target draw weight with a bow reflexed that much. Thanks!
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Offline bcbull

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Re: Pole Bow
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2012, 10:37:08 pm »
hey pat looks neat  got me thinkin here whens out p a bow trade sign up gonna be ?? been watchin waitin for it brock ;)
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Re: Pole Bow
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2012, 12:03:36 am »
Awesome Pat!

Like I said before this is one thread that i will be following closely.

Jon
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Re: Pole Bow
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2012, 12:42:27 am »
Lee, all I did was remove the bark. All of the sapwood is still there and is part of the bow. There are only 2 or3 sapwood rings. You can see it on the end grain in the first few pics and along the sides of the heartwood in the belly close up.  Due to the high crown I will back with rawhide.

Brock, I'm not sure. I'll check into it.

Probably will be anyway Pearlie.  ;)

George, this is sucker growth either from a stump or a water shoot in a tree. Vertical growth. I thgink this stave has about 12 growth rings.

Thanks Will and Jon. I'm looking forward to it too.  ;)
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« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2012, 01:10:40 am »
Pat looks like another great build! That's a pretty color on that pole.

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Re: Pole Bow
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2012, 08:48:39 am »
Ya gonna hang a nice flag on that pole too,or do a dance for us on that yeller pole ::)...lol :laugh:

It'll be interesting to see a high crown sap on osage bow bend...hope the rawhide holds her down...it should and not sure if I wood try that unbacked... ::)
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Re: Pole Bow
« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2012, 09:01:57 am »
Good looking start Pat ,that should be a fine stick. :) :) I never really done a sap wood on Osage but I know you have and Sonny done them all the time without issue. :) :)
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Re: Pole Bow
« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2012, 10:16:14 am »
Nice one Pat!  I love it.
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Re: Pole Bow
« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2012, 11:15:45 am »
Sonny is where I got the idea to build a bow like this, Pappy.  For those that don't know, Sonny Imans was a bowyer from Ohio that was interviewed in an old PA magazine by a guy named Dane Snodgrass. The article was called Limbows and this is the kind of bows Sonny built. I had the the privledge to spend about 30 minutes with Sonny at Farmland Indiana years ago on a trip back home from, Northern Indiana to NC. Sonny's bows were excellent, hard shooting hunting limbows. Just peel the bark and make a bow.   Look up the old article, read it and try it for yourself.
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Re: Pole Bow
« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2012, 11:34:00 am »
You are right Pat,we camped with him for years at Cloverdale,the bows were works of Art. I still regret not get one of them. :) Good luck on that one,looking forward to seeing it shooting. :)
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Offline swamp yeti

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Re: Pole Bow
« Reply #14 on: January 11, 2012, 11:44:43 am »
That is going to be a nice one Pat.
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