Osage Molle-ish

[Maxwelliuston]

I had this piece of osage that split a little funny and forced my hand into doing a kind of molle type thing - which I've always been keen to try anyways.  The limb that ended up being the bottom had a grain wiggle that split abruptly and narrowly about halfway down the limb.  If you can make out in the photos - basically the limb beyond that grain wiggle was largely untouched by me in terms of width.  I did my best to mirror the width profile on the upper limb and ended up with probably not the best ratio of bending:non bending limb for this design but it shoots an arrow hard enough. 

That wiggly feature on the bottom limb also had a bit of a kink in the deflex direction which only played more tricks on my eye when tillering - that and the fact it was my first try at tillering a molle shape probably resulted in a tiller that could use a little more work but as always I called it when I thought it felt balanced and stable.  I didn't have specific goals in terms of weight as this was an experimental piece in a lot of ways.  Its the last of my wood from the super fine ringed, dense as a rock WNY osage I cut last year.  The 4 resulting sister bows have all been vastly different projects and its bittersweet to reach the end of that particular haul.

68" ntn
40# @28"
1 3/4" at fades, 1"ish stiff levers and just under 3/8 at tips

[superdav95]

Nicely done.  I love molle style bows. Little tricky to do but sure have a sweet profile. 

[bjrogg]

Nice experiment. Much better than giving up on it.

I’m sure you learned a lot from it. Sounds like it’s time to find some more Osage.

 Thanks for sharing

Bjrogg

[George Tsoukalas]

Very nice and a very good bow which typifies the idea that the stave may dictate design. Jawge

[smoke]

Really pretty bow!  You did a great job on this!

[Pappy]

Nice job, beautiful bow.
 Pappy

[Thorsten]

Very nice looking piece of wood ;-)
I just fineshed a Møllegabes style hazel bow, which was shorter than yours, but it was very fast  30#/28" and made 160f/s
Cause I realy haven't expected it to work out fine, I decided to go a step further and heat tread a bow the first time….
Now it's charcoal…

[Selfbowman]

Looks good . Enjoy the bow .

[StickMark]

Good pics of the bow. Always good to see thought out presentation of these tools we make.

[Phillip King]