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Offline sulphur

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Plain ol osage- Hot Rod & Hawkeye
« on: December 20, 2009, 10:46:01 am »
My sunday school teacher wanted a primitive bow for his son.  After he shot my osage longbow he want one for his son.  He brought me a 7' long straight as an arrow log from a tree on his land.  this was back on Oct 1 so i had 3 months to strip em down and dry the wood enough for a bow.  The rough out staves spend 2 weeks with the bark & sapwood removed inside my house, then 4 weeks in my hot box on 100 degrees.  I was amazed they dried out so well with just a few vertical cracks in the belly, which disappeared while tillering.   I haven't had any straight osage in so long, it was an absolute pleasure to work on such good osage!  anyway of course i made the father & son combo, so here they are "Hawkeye & Hot Rod".   hawkeye is 63" 52# @ 27" with a large knot in the top limb which gave it its name.  Hot Rod only had a few knot and used so little wood to make weight, with 3" of reflex heated in.  Its light mass made for a fast bow and a pleasure to shoot.  these will be given at christmas with surprise for both father and son, as the father has picked up the one he knows about already and i will give the one for him to his wife before christmas day. I also sent a bunch of my old PA magazines with him since they are new to primitive archery.  anyway here are a few pics.






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Re: Plain ol osage- Hot Rod & Hawkeye
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2009, 10:51:06 am »
Awesome!  What a great gesture!!  O:)
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Re: Plain ol osage- Hot Rod & Hawkeye
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2009, 10:53:26 am »
Sweet Looking Bows there....and I am sure that there will be some sweet smiles come Christmas Morning too........ ;)
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Offline DanaM

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Re: Plain ol osage- Hot Rod & Hawkeye
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2009, 11:05:40 am »
The bows look great and what a nice xmas gift :)
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Re: Plain ol osage- Hot Rod & Hawkeye
« Reply #4 on: December 20, 2009, 11:41:07 am »
Both bows look great; just wiswh the pics where a bit bigger...
Yes, nice gesture, too!
What's the overlay??
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: Plain ol osage- Hot Rod & Hawkeye
« Reply #5 on: December 20, 2009, 11:49:38 am »
Those are beautiful bows and a very kind gesture. Very nice. Jawge
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Offline chasing crow

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Re: Plain ol osage- Hot Rod & Hawkeye
« Reply #6 on: December 20, 2009, 12:13:15 pm »
That is so cool and both bows really look nice.
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Offline sulphur

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Re: Plain ol osage- Hot Rod & Hawkeye
« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2009, 12:20:18 pm »
some of my pics didn't post.  here are the tips on the other one and handle view.


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Offline sulphur

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Re: Plain ol osage- Hot Rod & Hawkeye
« Reply #8 on: December 20, 2009, 12:27:04 pm »
tips are cocobolo on hawkeye and bloodwood on hot rod.  sorry about the size i always resize to medium.
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Re: Plain ol osage- Hot Rod & Hawkeye
« Reply #9 on: December 20, 2009, 02:15:52 pm »
Got anyone around to crank it back for the full draw. Its always fun to enter into BOM
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: Plain ol osage- Hot Rod & Hawkeye
« Reply #10 on: December 20, 2009, 02:41:58 pm »
What is "plane" about this bow? Answer: nuthin'. Let's see that tiller which I'm sure is outstanding. Jawge
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Offline woodstick

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Re: Plain ol osage- Hot Rod & Hawkeye
« Reply #11 on: December 20, 2009, 05:16:22 pm »
nice job they will be happy for many moons.
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Offline sulphur

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Re: Plain ol osage- Hot Rod & Hawkeye
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2009, 08:36:10 pm »
guys i say "plain ol" partly because i have seen so many great bows of elm, bamboo, horn bows etc (its a long list), and partly because plain old osage with will make a super bow anytime.    anyway here is the full draw pic on Hawkeye, i didn't get one on hot rod.  the top limb could be better, but not bad for the 3 knots in it.
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Re: Plain ol osage- Hot Rod & Hawkeye
« Reply #13 on: December 20, 2009, 09:53:01 pm »
Nicely done
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: Plain ol osage- Hot Rod & Hawkeye
« Reply #14 on: December 20, 2009, 10:18:55 pm »
Yup. Just as I suspected. Tiller is awesome. :) Jawge
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