The ones that make you WORK for it...

[JW_Halverson]

Never worked with Osage, but would shaping a scraper be any use?? I used a semi-circle scraper for cleaning out the hollows on a couple of hollow-limb bows?

Oh yeah, I have a selection of scrapers of various shapes just for these situations.  But chasing a ring with a scraper?  That's be like carving Mount Rushmore with a handful of sheets of sandpaper! 

I don't know how people can make bows without using scrapers.  I have done it, I just can't imagine how I did it!

[JoJoDapyro]

My Scraper is mean. Well, the burr on it is!

[Stringman]

There was somethin said about a bow laid out er something by the end of today... er somethin.. 

[JW_Halverson]

All right, these are the details so far.  Here is the endgrain showing you the narrow rings, but the good ratio of early to late.



And here is a view down the stave:



I pushed the bow over to the one edge of the stave and cheated a little in the handle section in order to avoid a really nasty pin knot cluster-fluster. 

[JonW]

Those are NOT narrow rings lol. That is a good piece of wood. Full draw pics tomorrow?

[JW_Halverson]

This bow is the one I am building for the person that won my Facebook auction to raise money for Bryce/Pinecone.  For those of you that somehow have missed the news, or are VERY new to the site, Bryce is one of the best of us here on the Primitive Archer Forum.  He is acknowledged as a a great bowbuilder and has picked up several Bow of the Month and his amazing character yew bow was chosen as the Selfbow of the Year.  Even better, is how he pitches in to this forum and shares his experience freely.  Recently, to help support the magazine that foots the bill for this entire website so WE DON'T HAVE TO PAY ANY MEMBERSHIP, Bryce ran a contest offering one of his amazing yew bows to people purchasing a new subscription. One new subscriber won a bow I would conservatively value at being worth $700.

No pressure on me, I just have to make a bow that reflects Bryce's stature!!!

[Marc St Louis]

Yes definitely not narrow.  I have some Osage in my shop that fits 3 rings in one of yours and I have seen tighter

[osage outlaw]

Those look like perfect rings to me.  Is that thing floor tillered yet? 

[bubby]

A blind man could chase them thar rings

[JW_Halverson]

Funny, when I went at 'em with the draw knife, the grain would tear out two or three rings deep. I took out my diamond hones and sharpened the blade until it would pop hairs off my arm and it still was tearing out grain. 

But that is why we have tools in our toolboxes, for those times that you gotta change it up and skin that cat a different way.

[osage outlaw]

A bling man could chase them thar rings

When you say bling man, are you talking about someone like this?

[bubby]

A bling man could chase them thar rings

Like i said a blind man like me could chase them rings and use auto correct 😋

When you say bling man, are you talking about someone like this?

[Lee Slikkers]

Looking forward to being "Wowed"....   

[Dictionary]

A bling man could chase them thar rings

When you say bling man, are you talking about someone like this?

Lolol

[soy]

build that one my friend.....I will get to work on the stave I started last time I was there,and you can sell them both for brice,get ahold of me