osage board bows: 2 at once

[radius]

hey all, this will be my first contribution to the site...I bought a chunk of osage from Pine Hollow Longbows last week, 62 x 2.25 x 4.75.  I cut it into 6 pieces, 62 x 1.5 x 1.125.  One of those pieces I then ripped in half, leaving 2 pieces half and inch thick.  Those two I'm going to laminate with a cherrywood backing strip 1/8th thick, in a perry reflex.  But the two bows i want to make side by side for this buildalong are from two of the other pieces.  The only differences will be at the handle/fades and the tips.  On one, the tip is narrowed along 12 inches.  On the other the tip is narrowed along 8 inches.  The second one has a 4 inch handle with 1 inch fades.  The first has a 4 inch handle with 2 inch fades.  I want to tiller them both to 65# weight at 27 or 28.

Whew!  They say a picture is worth a thousand words:  how do i post pictures on here?

Scott

[radius]

ok, i see a bunch of people have viewed this:::::: so, what's up with the picture posting?

[sailordad]

you can just do what i always do(if you have kids)
just get a teenager to do it,thats the easist and  fastest way i know how to do it.


actaully ifn you got to like imageshack you can uplaod photos from there and other photo hostinh siites,then click on the insert image tab here and insert your link from the photohosting site.
i think thats what my kid showed me how to do it.

good luck

[cowboy]

Click on Additional Options at the bottom of your post, then click browse to find your picture, then double click the picture to attach it. The pic needs to be 640x480 or smaller I believe, I think you can add up to six to one post..

[Jesse]

I put all my pics in photobucket and them just paste the img code in my post. then no resizing is necessary you can use any size.      Jesse

[radius]

thanks for the advice.

here's a few pics of a yew holmegaard i made recently (thanks to adb for his efforts)

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm102/radius-01/Picture035.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm102/radius-01/Picture030.jpg

http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm102/radius-01/Picture038.jpg

ok let's see if this works!

[Jesse]

use the last option Img code then we dont have to click on it

[radius]

[El Destructo]

Nice Bow....Tiller looks Good....and you have to Love da yew!!! But I hope them weights aren't for you to strength train with ........

[radius]

roflmao!!!!

i hope so too!  I'm trying to work my way up to those...

the 2 osage staves just arrived the other day, so i took some meat off and am going to let them sit a few days to acclimatize before working on them.

[El Destructo]

                                     Sounds like a Plan.......... these are Boards ....right....not Staves??

                                    Board ....a Flat Piece of Hewn Wood...Kiln Dried...cut to Dimensions

   Stave.....A Log Split into useable sized wedges used by Bowyers to make fancy.... expensive.... time consuming Firewood
 
                                                             

[radius]

yeah, these are boards.

I have no second thoughts or misgivings, either.   Boards are good.

[El Destructo]

Nope...Boards are fine.....I like Osage no matter how it comes......are you going to Boo Back them or maybe Hickory??? I once took a Hedge Board...and followed one ring and make a good Bow....but the Wood has to be a near perfect cut before this will work...

[DanaM]

Wood is wood whether its a board or stave

[radius]

Ok, here are some pictures of the wood i have to work with...as i said, 62x1.5x1.125...

one picture is of a piece only 9/16ths thick...it is for a perry reflex....
two on their side, one on its back...

a little fuzzy, but this shows the ring pattern

notice the great pattern on the rings!


here is a view of the grain pattern along the length...