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Offline Woodland Roamer

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My Latest Osage Bow
« on: September 25, 2007, 10:53:13 am »
Hey everyone, here are a few pics of the osage bow that I finished up this weekend. It is osage, 67 inches long and pulls 50 @ 26. When I started working this stave I wasn't sure it had a bow in it. It had a couple knots and lots of cracks but I was able to work all of them out and was left with a really clean piece of osage. The top limb had a little natural deflex to it so I heat treated it after I got it floor tillered so it would match the other one which had some natural reflex, then later on heated both limbs. The bow was pretty tricky to tiller with lots of twists and turns in that top limb. It ended up holding about one inch of reflex after being shot in. I finished it with four coats of Truoil and the handle wrap is braintan deer. The bow shoots really quiet and fast, I'll be hunting with it soon.

Alan





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Offline Kviljo

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Re: My Latest Osage Bow
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2007, 10:55:45 am »
Wow! That's a beauty!
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Offline Woodland Roamer

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« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2007, 10:56:34 am »
And here is full draw.


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Offline DanaM

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Re: My Latest Osage Bow
« Reply #3 on: September 25, 2007, 11:03:01 am »
Definitely has some character in her. Looks like you did really good on a tough stave.
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Offline cowboy

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Re: My Latest Osage Bow
« Reply #4 on: September 25, 2007, 11:36:33 am »
Now that is one cool looking bow! Love that character, tiller's good, looks like ya got er slicked up right.
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Offline Ghost Dog

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Re: My Latest Osage Bow
« Reply #5 on: September 25, 2007, 11:46:54 am »
What a beauty. Great job!
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Offline Marc St Louis

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Re: My Latest Osage Bow
« Reply #6 on: September 25, 2007, 12:01:52 pm »
Very nice. You did a good job with that bow
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Offline DanaM

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Re: My Latest Osage Bow
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2007, 12:25:52 pm »
BTW Happy Birthday tommow, you made yerself a nice present ;D
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Offline Wulamoc

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Re: My Latest Osage Bow
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2007, 12:52:05 pm »
Wow!  Good one!
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Offline Coo-wah-chobee

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Re: My Latest Osage Bow
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2007, 01:06:08 pm »
            Ditto...happy bday !.bob
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Offline snedeker

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Re: My Latest Osage Bow
« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2007, 01:10:48 pm »
You got everything out of that stave.  Wild wave in upper limb.

Dave
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Offline Hillbilly

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Re: My Latest Osage Bow
« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2007, 01:14:12 pm »
Mighty fine lookin' weapon. You did a good job tillering through all those squiggles.
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Offline OldBow

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Re: My Latest Osage Bow
« Reply #12 on: September 25, 2007, 01:16:55 pm »
Great looking bow. Great character, too! We'll look at again next week for Sept Self Bow of the Month.
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Re: My Latest Osage Bow
« Reply #13 on: September 25, 2007, 01:17:48 pm »
Beautiful bow, love the character
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Offline GregB

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Re: My Latest Osage Bow
« Reply #14 on: September 25, 2007, 02:29:14 pm »
 
That's a really nice bow, and a challenging one to tiller when the dips are from back to belly. Looks like the tiller is really nice...great job! :)
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