10 years later... my Osage is ready.

[lenador]

Looking much better than I had anticipated to be honest. .good job so far.

Thanks! I am building a tillering area today. Actually it turned more into an area to work on bows and arrows.

[Phillip King]

 

[Muskyman]

Thanks! I am building a tillering area today. Actually it turned more into an area to work on bows and arrows.
We all need one of those. Hope the bow is working out for you.

[lenador]

Thanks! I am building a tillering area today. Actually it turned more into an area to work on bows and arrows.
We all need one of those. Hope the bow is working out for you.

I've not touched it until I get my tillering area done. The tillering area is done but I need to finish the stuff around it. My wife does glass art and she has an exhibition coming up so we've been installing fragile glass pieces for a week straight. I have some freedom this weekend though.

[lenador]

I have finally finished my bow working area and my tillering rack. I did have a bit of oversight on the design because I can pull it to full draw and I can use it to pull the bow weight scale. Anywho... I can finally move on to tillering my Osage bow.
  Btw, my red oak bow in the tillering rack is my read oak D bow and it pulled 41 lbs ant 28".

[superdav95]

That will work. 

[Eric Krewson]

Because every bow I made with a side checked stave failed, I toss every such stave in the future tool handle pile or burn it outright. I hope you have better luck with your stave than I had with a bunch of mine.

[lenador]

Because every bow I made with a side checked stave failed, I toss every such stave in the future tool handle pile or burn it outright. I hope you have better luck with your stave than I had with a bunch of mine.

As far as I'm concerned it's already been successful. This little project forced me to finally acquireich needed tools for proper bow building such as building my work area and tillering rack, it forced me to finally take my shooting more seriously and learn how to tune an arrow. I've this thing pops on the first pull I have the confidence and tools to make something nice out of the pile of staves next to it. 👍

[PEARL DRUMS]

Good attitude. Junk staves will teach you 10x more than good ones. But, learning how to drive in the winter on bald tires can be tricky

[lenador]

Slowly but surely tillering. I'm to the point I need to put nocks in and get a string on it. It at about 38 lbs in this picture. So I'm confident I have room to bring it down to 45-50 at my 28" draw length.

 I am worried about the checks in the tip. The one seems to have opened up during the tillering because the glue wasn't able to oentrate deep enough. I'm going to try to get the bow tillered to a lowe weight and get nocks done and see what the crack looks like after that and try to clge them and not touch them.

[Muskyman]

Looks good to me so far. Bend looks like it’s even. I’ve had sore spots disappear as I kept working the limbs down. Maybe once you get the limbs thinner you can get some glue into the check on the tip.
Good luck with it.

[lenador]

Looks good to me so far. Bend looks like it’s even. I’ve had sore spots disappear as I kept working the limbs down. Maybe once you get the limbs thinner you can get some glue into the check on the tip.
Good luck with it.

That's the plan, the seem to be only on the side so I think I can get it to a brace and get a string on it today and glue the checks after I tiller it the rest of the way. I need to build a jig first. My tips need  some straighting. I can feel it in the handle when you pull back. Might even reflex the tips a bit.
 The back is very rounded. Seems to be tillering fine so I'm rolling with it.

[JW_Halverson]

Fake workshop.

Too clean.

I said what I said.

 

[superdav95]

Too funny!   You’d like my shop then!  I call it organized chaos.  Lol

[Muskyman]

What my shop needs is a dust collection system. Everything is covered with dust and the floor is taking on a Osage orange cast to it. It did start out like the picture above but that didn’t last. Started out a shed for me and my wife but I kinda took it over and now my wife says I have to build one for her.