Oven cleaner & osage

[Eric Krewson]

I have only made a couple of sinew backed osage bows, I didn't degrease just roughed up the back with a toothing plane.

Dean Torges was of the opinion that freshly worked osage didn't need to be degreased. I found this to be true as well. I once degreased the backs of all my BBOs before I applied bamboo. I quit degreasing after about the 20th one, I didn't have any failures on the next 30 or so.

[Stick Bender]

Thanks for all the help this one Im wearing both my belt & suspenders with sence I pulled up a splinter on the down slope of a knot during tiller so Im fixing that with CA glue first & just wanted to make sure the bow back had a solid grip for the sinew