It doesn't need much wood to make a serious bow from osage. This bow comes from a splinter, a left over from a thicker stave. It was only 1” wide and 5/8” thick at maximum, but super clean and needed only a bit of dry heat corrections for string alignment.
This bow is made for comparison with bow 91 (wide limb osage). Nearly same length, same draw weight, but much less mass because of a totally different design. Here it is:
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,61237.0.htmlThis bow has a more or less ELB style cross section with crowned belly.
Tiller is near to a circle, but stiff tips.
Handle is hemp, dyed with charcoal.
Tips are thin strips of buffalo horn.
bendy handle
asymmetrical
reflex 2”
w/d handle: 25/17mm
w/d midlimb: 26/14 mm
w/d at kerf: 6/10 mm
mass 390 gram
ntn 56½”
57#/28”
06”: 2,6
08”: 9,4 (+ 6,8)
10”: 15,1 (+ 5,7)
12”: 19,8 (+ 4,7)
14”: 24,1 (+ 4,3)
16”: 28,3 (+ 4,2)
18”: 32,8 (+ 4,5)
20”: 37,4 (+ 4,6)
22”: 42,0 (+ 4,6)
24”: 46,6 (+ 4,6)
26”: 51,3 (+ 4,7)
28”: 56,8 (+ 5,4)
