Fire pit stave???

[Selfbowman]

Well I considered the fire pit but maybe a challenge.

[Selfbowman]

Pics.

[Selfbowman]

58” long

[Selfbowman]

Challenge started.

[Selfbowman]

Roughed out

[Selfbowman]

To much???

[Pat B]

You've gone this far you might as well go all the way. Good luck with this fire pit stave, Arvin. 

[Selfbowman]

Got it this far.

[Hamish]

Is there any major benefit toasting osage, like you get with whitewoods? I would have thought you risk checking and brittleness?

[Pappy]

Looks like it is cleaning up pretty good Arvin, never tried that but who knows, I have toasted the belly on some but even dry /seasoned always worry about checks on the back so never to heavy. Look forward to seeing what you get from it. 
 Pappy

[Selfbowman]

The knot in one end is trying to give me a hard time so I’m going to use a less drastic radius caul on the ends. This caul was for a short computer designed bow I did. No checks on the back so far. This thing is going spend many hours on the heat bench.