!st let me say, I'd like everyone opinions and don't hold back because someone says something different. This is a learning curve and before I tackle my real good osage I though I'd play with this one.
History1800 from PP gifted this stave @ our rendezvous in jan. its been a challenge for sure. He told me steam was the way to go in trying to straighten it out. I tried it for one limb and got a lot of cracks. filled them with super glue and no spreading as of now. I dry heated the rest and no problems.
It still needs more straighting I think, but you all give me your thoughts. It still has some twist & the string is off center, I left as much width as I could after cleaning up the wood from the split its just over 1 1/4 for most of the limbs some curves are less.
What I'm calling the bottom limb had the most natural reflex with twist.
Tips are around 1" and lots to remove when done.
Its 70" now and I want to shorten, but wanted to play with getting both limbs bending even, re-curved the tips while trying to get some of the twist out. Its pulling around 30lbs @ 21"
Not sure how much I want to cut off yet (Feedback)
My draw is 25 1/2 and would like around 55lbs.
Some parts have been heated at this point but not all. So after even everything up and shorten and re-curve the tips I give it a good heat up.
Let me have it folks and thanks
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