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Title: My first osage bow
Post by: wvbowhntr on October 07, 2009, 09:35:28 pm

This is my First osage bow it is 58in ntn sinew back covered with copperhead skins.  I would also like to thank everyone on this site for all your help.  I had alot of questions and you guys helped me with them all.  Thank you,  This was the first bow I sliced from billets, the first sinew backed, first short bow, first time ive flipped the tips, and the first time heat straightening.  This stave was pretty snakey but i straightened it alot trying to line up the tips. the tips and arrow rest are deer antler.  It pulls 55@27. This bow was alot of firsts for me so please tell me what yoy think good or bad.
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Title: Re: My first osage bow
Post by: Little John on October 07, 2009, 09:39:40 pm

Very fine job with all those first. Really like this bow a lot. Nothing like osage.       Kenneth

Title: Re: My first osage bow
Post by: cowboy on October 07, 2009, 09:44:54 pm

Fine job there wv! All those first's and you pulled it off . That thing aught to really fling some arra's - you've got a bright bowering future ;).

Title: Re: My first osage bow
Post by: tombo on October 07, 2009, 09:48:11 pm

Pretty bow, good job. I would have shortened that handle a bit though, give you more limb. Tom

Title: Re: My first osage bow
Post by: knightd on October 07, 2009, 09:48:27 pm

That is a fine looking bow especially with all the first !!!! I really like the way you used the skins on it..  On your next one I would try and get the mid limb working just a bit more..

Title: Re: My first osage bow
Post by: Hillbilly on October 07, 2009, 10:07:13 pm

That's a good lookin' weapon, nice job. I'm with David, the midlimbs could work a bit more, but I bet it'll fling an arrow plenty fast.

Title: Re: My first osage bow
Post by: OldBow on October 07, 2009, 10:37:39 pm

You've got to be proud of this one and proudly submitted for October Self Bow of the Month.

Title: Re: My first osage bow
Post by: sander on October 07, 2009, 10:48:41 pm

I bet it feels good having accomplished all those firsts.  Really like your copperhead skins,
hope my first turns out half as good.  Have fun shooting, Sander

Title: Re: My first osage bow
Post by: gmc on October 07, 2009, 10:49:25 pm

I think pretty darn good. Love the skin on the back, very nice job!

Title: Re: My first osage bow
Post by: hawkbow on October 07, 2009, 10:51:16 pm

Great job brother... looks like a meat maker.. Hawk

Title: Re: My first osage bow
Post by: GregB on October 08, 2009, 07:51:02 am

Very nice job overall, and with a lot of new ground covered. Something not mentioned yet, I might would have narrowed the tips a little more then you did and maybe a little smaller wraps near the tips. I'm assuming those were to help hold the sinew ends down and the snake skins? My suggestions were just very minor personal observations that tend to vary with personal taste. The bow looks like it should be a good performer and very well made. ;)

Title: Re: My first osage bow
Post by: DanaM on October 08, 2009, 08:14:48 am

Thats a fine looking bow :)

Title: Re: My first osage bow
Post by: woodstick on October 08, 2009, 10:17:07 am

nice bow i wish my first was that good.

Title: Re: My first osage bow
Post by: TBod on October 08, 2009, 10:56:40 am

I like it!

The tiller looks like a Holmegaard style kind of. Like Greg said to bee more efficient narrow the tips.

Title: Re: My first osage bow
Post by: Parnell on October 08, 2009, 11:53:44 am

Way to go on that one!  I haven't gotten the resources for a bow like that, yet, but that's what I'm lookin forward to in the future.  Congratulations!

Title: Re: My first osage bow
Post by: wvbowhntr on October 08, 2009, 06:40:52 pm

I really appriciate all the responses thank you.  A little more info the limbs are just over 1 1/4in to just past mid limb tapering to 3/8 tips.  The wraps at the tips look so big because they are covering sinew wraps.  I left the outer limbs stiff and the tips static to help with string angle.  I figured with osage and sinew it could handle the inner to mid limbs doing most of the work.

Title: Re: My first osage bow
Post by: wvbowhntr on October 10, 2009, 04:58:20 am

Was leaving so much of the outer limb stiff a bad idea?

Title: Re: My first osage bow
Post by: gmc on October 10, 2009, 05:24:12 am

I really like your bow. You've done some things with this bow that I've yet to experience.

Some of the more experienced guys can offer up a better opinion, but my thoughts are that it probally can handle it. But normally you try to match the tiller with limb design. With a paraell limb the tiller should be more elliptical with the bend spread more into the middle 3rd of the limb. Leaving the tips a little stiff is matter of preference, to each their own. But this should improve cast and equal out the stress on the limbs which will keep shooting longer over time.  Greg