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Title: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
Post by: CrazyHorse1969 on July 13, 2015, 05:48:49 pm

My dad--with permission--cut a few live Osage and Black Locust trees from a relative's property in Ohio then hauled them up to me in Michigan. I split, quartered, and sealed the staves and eventually hauled an Osage stave across country and part of the Great Plains--well, all of Nebraska and part of the Northeast corner of Colorado--to my new residence in Colorado and figured I would build a Plains-style Osage self bow. I loosely went with a set of dimensions from one of the bows in the _Encyclopedia of Native American Bows, Arrows & Quivers Volume 2_. Mine is longer.

I finished the bow with Tru-Oil and wrapped the handle with red wool and deerskin lace. It is a simple bow--in fact, only the seventh bow I have built--but it has been shooting hard and fast.

Thanks for looking...

Title: Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
Post by: mikekeswick on July 13, 2015, 06:16:11 pm

That a really nice bow especially for your seventh. It looks like it came from a good clean well chosen stave.  :)

Title: Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
Post by: Drewster on July 13, 2015, 06:22:13 pm

Yes indeed, a fine looking bow for #7.  Congrats on the good work!

Title: Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
Post by: half eye on July 13, 2015, 07:03:21 pm

The beauty is in the bend....and you have a beauty right there.
rich

Title: Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
Post by: koan on July 13, 2015, 07:13:34 pm

Nice bend! 👍.... Brian

Title: Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
Post by: Pat B on July 13, 2015, 07:44:52 pm

Beautiful bend. Well done!   8)

Title: Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
Post by: CrazyHorse1969 on July 13, 2015, 08:33:27 pm

Thanks, guys! My bows are getting a little better. I should point out that the other stave I brought with me was Black Locust, and I snapped that one in half trying to straighten it with dry heat. Oh well. I actually sort of rushed the Osage bow. I roughed it out when I first worked on the original Ohio stash and only let it dry for 4-5 months (something like that). But the arid weather out here in Colorado really sped up the curing time. I, too, only put three coats of Tru-Oil on the Osage in case I have to scrape it off and re-work it down the road.

Title: Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
Post by: Aaron H on July 13, 2015, 09:02:52 pm

Man that thing looks great, awesome bend

Title: Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
Post by: Stixnstones on July 13, 2015, 09:17:10 pm

Congrats on one hellava bow, that bend is smoove😄

Title: Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
Post by: CrazyHorse1969 on July 14, 2015, 09:15:58 am

Quote from: stixnstones on July 13, 2015, 09:17:10 pm

Congrats on one hellava bow, that bend is smoove😄

Thanks!

Title: Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on July 14, 2015, 09:53:56 am

Way to go trout killer! That looks like a real nice fit in your hands.

Title: Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
Post by: bubby on July 14, 2015, 11:02:50 am

Real nice bow

Title: Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
Post by: bowmo on July 14, 2015, 11:26:19 am

Really nice. I love simple d-bows

Title: Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
Post by: Ryan C on July 14, 2015, 11:37:29 am

Nice bow and cool story about the stave.