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Title: I cant take it any more!!
Post by: jeffhalfrack on January 14, 2012, 04:14:03 pm
 All. This ossage!  I want a couple. Ossage.  'You finnish bows' its so scarce I'm afraid of messing up. What I like is. 62" 64" bows around 50# max I have stuff to trade. All kinds of things no stone no leather just let me. Know.  Thanks Jeff W 
Title: Re: I cant take it any more!!
Post by: toomanyknots on January 14, 2012, 04:32:38 pm
I'm not sure what you want. Do you want a stave, or a bow? What do you mean by "you finish bows"?.
Title: Re: I cant take it any more!!
Post by: jeffhalfrack on January 14, 2012, 08:23:26 pm
  Sorry  something,  roughed out to  a little past  brace height  that  needs enough  Finnish work to call my own??    all I can get is white  wood,,scrape the bark off  and go  Osage is  so scarce I'm  afraid to go it all  by my self (chicken) and to big a  gamble. I hope this makes sense Jeff
Title: Re: I cant take it any more!!
Post by: toomanyknots on January 14, 2012, 08:42:15 pm
Where abouts do you live at?
Title: Re: I cant take it any more!!
Post by: jeffhalfrack on January 14, 2012, 10:22:20 pm
  Upstate  New York,  (the real upstate) in the fingerlakes  the north end of Seneca lake,   midway  between  Rochester  and Syracuse  JEFFW
Title: Re: I cant take it any more!!
Post by: Ifrit617 on January 14, 2012, 10:57:22 pm
Huh,

I'm only about a hour away from you.. Maybe we could meet and talk about bows sometime...

Jon
Title: Re: I cant take it any more!!
Post by: jeffhalfrack on January 14, 2012, 11:11:56 pm
  COOL   617 !!!!!  what  direction?????  there  are  a  few of  us. JEFFW   Pm  ME some time,,,
Title: Re: I cant take it any more!!
Post by: gstoneberg on January 14, 2012, 11:17:56 pm
Does this osage bow have to be straight?? >:D  Wouldn't you just love the process if bending and untwisting yellow wood?? 8)

I have some osage that's about a year down.  I can rough out a bow for you if you want.  I'd seal the back and you'd need to let it dry out a little once it gets up there where it's drier.  If  you'd rather something more seasoned  I have some seasoned billets I could splice up.

George
Title: Re: I cant take it any more!!
Post by: jeffhalfrack on January 15, 2012, 11:01:43 pm
   GEEEZZEE!!!  George,,I've  seen  some of  your  work (awesome!)  and  I've  seen  the  raw  materials  :o  but  do  you  think  I'd  have a  shot?  I think  I could  bend  and  twist,   but  the  whole  chasing  rings  on  such  a hard to get  commodity :-\  maybe  the rough out version  may  be the trick ?   what do you  think?   BTW,  how  hard  is it to make  some   2"w x3\4" thick x 36"or 40" slats?  maybe  we should  pm  and  discus this?  thanks Jeff
Title: Re: I cant take it any more!!
Post by: gstoneberg on January 16, 2012, 12:08:19 am
I don't think you should try a real crooked stave for your first osage bow.  I can take the stave to a growth ring if you're worried about that step, no problem.  You just tell me where you want the stave/bow to be and I'll go that far.  You'll have to let me know what you have to trade.

Osage is nearly impossible to rip once it's seasoned.  I had some green osage milled with a portable sawmill, it was costly.  I had 5 boards cut, I think it cost me $70.  I owe Cameroo some board staves from that wood.  It did check some so I'm not getting as many board staves as I hoped I would.  Here's what getting osage milled looks like.

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3650/5769758890_c263ac4d9f_z.jpg)

I guess next time I'll try spraying the boards with shellac to see if it stops the checking.  The boards looks like this now.

(http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6192/6138343817_cc1d5ae891_z.jpg)

Yes, we should probably go to email.

George
Title: Re: I cant take it any more!!
Post by: gstoneberg on January 17, 2012, 12:04:38 am
PM sent.   George