Lol! No doubt you could easily prove that wrong, but its hardly necessary. If the search function worked better, there are already plenty examples of erc self bows on this forum alone. John McPherson has been training special forces in Advanced survival training for quite a few years and part of the curriculum is for every student to make a survival bow with nothing more than a field knife. The only wood they use...... unbacked erc limbs. Most of these operators have never made a bow in their life. It's not that hard to do and it doesn't require a seventy inch perfectly clean stave. It does however, require you to leave your yellow wood mentality behind. I love osage, but I believe it has spoiled a lot of bowyers that try to make an Osage bow out of lesser woods. It just don't work, most of the time anyway. BTW, beautiful bow Brian! Josh
