Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: bow101 on June 28, 2013, 09:12:36 pm
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I have not had the pleasure of working with Osage yet, anyway.......... :) Sometime I will though. Maybe we should call this site Primitive Osage Bows: :P Just calling humour is all, becasue most prime prize bows are made from Osage. I'll have to try it before I die. ;) Ya...yaaa....ya I know you have Hickory, Ash, Yew, Elm and all the other characters. But from what I have read on here and other sites Osage is King of the forest. Maybe it has the right weight and density that makes it that perfect Selfbow.?
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Osage is the most fun wood I've ever had the pleasure of working :P 8)
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Where are you located? Maybe we can do something about your lack of osage ;) If you want to cover shipping I think I might have an extra stave. It won't be a primo straight as an arrow stave, but there will be a bow in it. If you live across the ocean I don't think it will work.
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I just saw you are in Canada. It is fairly expensive to ship a stave across the border :-\
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Osage is very forgiving but very tough.
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Thanks Outlaw. Right now I have bigger fish to fry. Besides I'am not ready for doing that type of bow yet, taking baby steps....: ;D
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I actually don't like osage ;) I have never made a bow from it;) And I don't intend to until I get much better at bow-making.
I think osage would be a PITA cause I have a hand plane and a hatchet... And I can't work it down to a ring, etc. thats why I like white woods.
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This sounds really strange but I have found that every piece of osage has it's own personality, unlike other common(hickory, locust, maple) woods that are just, wood......
Not having worked with yew yet, I suspect it is much like osage in the personality department as would be vine maple and several other "interesting" woods.