Osage sapling bow...suggestions and current progress...

[Primitive1]

Yes, the pith was the length of the bow.  It disappears near the handle because it goes under the wood and fades out near one of the tips...I've found through past experiences with sapling bows that although you would think that the pith would run down the center/middle of the sapling, it wanders around quite a bit in there!

[SkyShooter]

im starting an osage limb very similar to this. good advice here

sky

[Postman]

Cool looking bow - great job!

[Primitive1]

Sky shooter:  Have fun and good luck...!  Keep us posted on your progress...I have to update mine on the other two saplings I was working on, just have to take the time to take photo's/post etc...
Postman:  Thank-you very much...

[coaster500]

Absolutely love this kind of bow!!

You did an amazing job... I'm in awe, ala-natural!!

[SkyShooter]

ill post on my progress on its own thread. the limbs about 11/4 diameter and 60'' long
have fun shootin that bow in the mean time!

[Tom Leemans]

Hey I remember Lloyd Lippert making a similar bow from an old osage tomato stake for the hatchet bow contest one year. That was a nice bow!

[Primitive1]

I know it's an old thread...just wanted to say, she's my 'go to' bow to this day...still shooting hard and sweet.  I thinned the tips down a wee bit a couple of year's ago, but still shooting 5 years later.  Good stuff osage, good stuff!

[Pat B]

Pole bows are some of my favorites. It really doesn't take much wood to make a good bow.

[mwosborn]

Very cool bow.  Glad you pulled it up - I had not seen that one before!

[TimBo]

I'm glad it got bumped up too - that bow is a real inspiration!  I have a couple of similar looking staves in the rafters that I need to get to soon.  A "simple" stick like that, with a graceful D shape when strung, is still my favorite sort of bow.  That's great that it is still your regular bow after all this time.

[Aaron H]

Glad this got brought back up, cool bow

[Springbuck]

Wow!   I work a lot with tiny saplings like that, and that looks just like so many of them with all the humps and bumps, EXCEPT you had to chase a ring on that.  Which I don't because mine are usually elm or mulberry, etc!  That alone took a steady, patient hand.   I also get away with bumps using width and allowing some run out of knot stubs, or shaping roller coaster waves along the edges, but yours is so narrow........... and THEN you had to deal with the pith.  Beautiful. Amazing.

[MulchMaker]

I can't believe it! That bow is so cool! This is craftsmanship at it's finest

[Little John]

Love this bow. Wow