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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Gaur on January 31, 2013, 04:31:52 am

Title: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: Gaur on January 31, 2013, 04:31:52 am

Hi all,

I've been working on this the last couple of weeks as a gift for a guy's 50th bday.  My old next door neighbors asked to to do it for their friend.  They always got a kick out of my bow projects when they lived next door.

I made it from one billet splinting it on a growth ring.  I used some African bloodwood I have left over from a friends dulcimer project.  Funny story about the wood.  I live in Thailand and my friend found it underneath a Buddhist temple in town where they are selling imported wood under the counter so to speak.  He had to ask about 3 people about it and get questioned before they finally too him to their stash.   Anyway I like how it looks with the osage.

(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg15/bamboo_archer/IMG_9798_zps76746021.jpg)

(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg15/bamboo_archer/IMG_9799_zps63fb515a.jpg)

its 63" NTN.  Don't know the poundage as I have been tearing the house apart looking for the digital luggage scale I use to check the weight of my bows.   But it must be close to 50# @28"

(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg15/bamboo_archer/IMG_9811_zps5816513a.jpg)
Sleeves I have made in a machine shop in Chiang Mai.  I buy the stainless tubing and some brass stock and then bring it to a machine shop and have them turn them for me and fit them.  Then I use their big arse vice and squeeze them into an oval shape while they are together.

(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg15/bamboo_archer/IMG_9804_zps0c425174.jpg)
Top Tip

(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg15/bamboo_archer/IMG_9806_zpsbb3145ac.jpg)
bottom tip.  Kinda big.  I should have had the bloodwood a little thinner. 

(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg15/bamboo_archer/IMG_9803_zpsbd9c5a46.jpg)
top limb
(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg15/bamboo_archer/osagesnakeskinwithnarong_zps0f4994dc.jpg)
Where we got the skins from.  I used half of this section for both limbs.  Got the rest in my freezer.  Got the skin from a guy who works at the snake farm.  This one died and they kept it for me.  $20.  And I get 2-3 bows from one ;)
(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg15/bamboo_archer/osagesnakeskin_zps37422471.jpg)
(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg15/bamboo_archer/IMG_9793_zps25a38c50.jpg)
Didn't take much set.  There was a little natural reflex to the limbs after I split the billet.

(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg15/bamboo_archer/IMG_9794_zpse00e1074.jpg)
Braced.  Top limbs on right has a +1/8 tiller

(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg15/bamboo_archer/IMG_9795_zpsd0dc8a06.jpg)

(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg15/bamboo_archer/IMG_9795_zps8081d9fd.jpg)
My tiller tree  ;D.  I have one but didn't use it on this bow.  just floor tillered, braced and then worked on it, took pictures and look at them like this.  By putting them in iphoto on my mac and using the "straighten" edit feature it pulls up a nice grid to look at the limbs.

I'll see about getting a little video at the range this evening.  I also  like to look at the limbs slowed down in imovie to see how the timing is going.  I guess you can feel that too but I like looking at it in a video for fun too.

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: Del the cat on January 31, 2013, 04:54:04 am

Sweet, great tiller
Del

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: stringstretcher on January 31, 2013, 05:57:07 am

beautiful bow.

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: Pappy on January 31, 2013, 06:27:47 am

Beautiful bow,he will love that I am sure.Very impressive. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: Gaur on January 31, 2013, 07:14:15 am

Thanks Del, Stringstrecher, and Pappy.  It was a fun project.  Its been took long since I made a bow.  Been a busy year and just haven't had the time or energy to make many.

I have another set of billets of osage and a yew set that I am wanting to get to next.

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: lesken2011 on January 31, 2013, 08:43:59 am

Nice job, Gaur. That bloodwood really accents the osage and skins, :)

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: burn em up chuck on January 31, 2013, 10:01:57 am

         very cool, neat story, nice bow.

                                   chuck

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on January 31, 2013, 10:06:18 am

Great looking bow Randy

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: JonW on January 31, 2013, 10:07:11 am

Nice work. The skins are killer.

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: Will H on January 31, 2013, 10:07:57 am

Very cool!  8)

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: Gaur on January 31, 2013, 10:23:08 am

Thanks guys.  Yeah I really like the contrast.  Sort of sad that its won't stay so yellow as the osage ages but oh well.

I just got back from the range.  working on a little video.  The bow came out to 45# @ 29" so it is a little under the 50# I was shooting for but 45# is a good weight and I think it will be the guys first trad bow.

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: Gaur on January 31, 2013, 10:35:46 am

here's a little video I did shooting it tonight.  While I like the full draw tiller it looks kind of like a hinge in the lower limb early on in the draw and after the release??

(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg15/bamboo_archer/th_osagetakedown63quot_zps8805a2e6.jpg) (http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg15/bamboo_archer/osagetakedown63quot_zps8805a2e6.mp4)

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: james parker on January 31, 2013, 10:46:46 am

randy.. your bow turned out really nice,, nice video too,,

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: Gaur on January 31, 2013, 11:08:35 am

Thanks James.  Now for a horn bow eh? :o

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: blackhawk on January 31, 2013, 11:09:48 am

That came out sweet randy :) 

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: danny f on January 31, 2013, 01:00:28 pm

thats a cracker i love the colour of that bloodwood and the skins are great too. well done

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: coaster500 on January 31, 2013, 03:39:39 pm

Very well done.... Tiller looks great!!!!

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: Gaur on January 31, 2013, 08:08:02 pm

Thanks Blackhawk, Danny and Coaster

On to the next one.  Got to keep the momentum going.  Lazy boy chairs are evil >:(

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: Dvshunter on January 31, 2013, 10:22:27 pm

Very nice. An instant classic.

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: Almostpighunter on February 03, 2013, 01:17:26 am

Awesome, simply awesome! Love the bow and the great backstory.

Title: Re: Osage Take Down I've been working on
Post by: Cameroo on February 03, 2013, 10:52:15 pm

That's a sexy beast! The red and yellow look really good together.