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Offline Will H

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Re: 3 Sisters Snakey Osage (pic Heavy)
« Reply #15 on: March 10, 2011, 10:28:38 pm »
Man I love this bow! beautiful tiller as well! Great job ;D
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Offline ricktrojanowski

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Re: 3 Sisters Snakey Osage (pic Heavy)
« Reply #16 on: March 10, 2011, 10:30:09 pm »
Wow, very nice.  You did a great job with that really tough piece of wood.  You ought to be real proud of that one.  Tillering must have been a real chore, but you nailed it.  Job well done.
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: 3 Sisters Snakey Osage (pic Heavy)
« Reply #17 on: March 10, 2011, 10:33:33 pm »
Keep this up and some day you will make nice bows!  (Didja note the sarcasm there?)

Aw man, if that bow came in at 20# draw weight I'd be happy with it!  Just achieving the incredible tiller this bow shows is bragging rights in any crowd of bowyers!!!  Awesome piece of work.  Astounding!

-John
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Offline hammertime

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Re: 3 Sisters Snakey Osage (pic Heavy)
« Reply #18 on: March 10, 2011, 10:38:21 pm »
Some Amazing work on that one-That takes some serious patience and talent-very cool and very sweet looking bow-Hammertime
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« Reply #19 on: March 10, 2011, 11:31:15 pm »

Ok - I can type now, finally picked my jaw up off of the keyboard.
Outstanding!
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Offline Timo

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Re: 3 Sisters Snakey Osage (pic Heavy)
« Reply #20 on: March 11, 2011, 12:08:08 am »
That thing looks like it's put together with about 27 u-joints! :o Nice job on a tough piece of wood.
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Offline Jesse

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Re: 3 Sisters Snakey Osage (pic Heavy)
« Reply #21 on: March 11, 2011, 12:28:37 am »
You must have a lot of patience ;D Excellent job!
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Re: 3 Sisters Snakey Osage (pic Heavy)
« Reply #22 on: March 11, 2011, 12:55:01 am »
Michael;
That came out great! I'm glad I sent it to you. With my schedule I saw it sitting in my shop for awhile. And, like Pat, was a little leary of it with the draw weight and pull I shoot. And, it's not to be confused with the "Three Sisters", More like the "Red Headed Stepsisters". Leaving it that length and draw weight probably helped it survive during tillering and shooting in, Congratulations on a fine bow.
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Re: 3 Sisters Snakey Osage (pic Heavy)
« Reply #23 on: March 11, 2011, 01:00:13 am »
Is this the only sucessful one of the lot?
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Offline Almostpighunter

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Re: 3 Sisters Snakey Osage (pic Heavy)
« Reply #24 on: March 11, 2011, 01:12:55 am »
Thanks to all for the wonderful comments!!

@ Ohma & snag: Guys, please forgive the carbons. I normally shoot 50-65# and all my bamboo arrows are "spined" in that range. I keep the lighter spined carbons, and the poplar that are also in the group pic, on hand mostly to shoot in the lighter bows I make for other people because they are cheap.

I personally think that natural shafts shoot better off longbows regardless of whether they are modern (insert dreaded "Fibe..." word here) or primitive due to superior bending during archer's paradox for the off center string line. I haven't had a reason to invest in POC or Bamboo at the lighter spine weights for myself...until now. If it makes you guys feel better I did order a dozen bamboo arrows today.

Hopefully you two, and anyone else on the forum, weren't too offended by the presence of the carbon on this otherwise primitive site. If so, then I apologize. - Mike
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Offline DEllis

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Re: 3 Sisters Snakey Osage (pic Heavy)
« Reply #25 on: March 11, 2011, 01:37:20 am »
If you can tiller a bow like that, you can shoot anything you want off it ;D
Nice job.
Darcy :)
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Offline George Tsoukalas

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Re: 3 Sisters Snakey Osage (pic Heavy)
« Reply #26 on: March 11, 2011, 01:37:31 am »
Oh wow! That is so nice. You did a great job on that one! Jawge
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Offline FlintWalker

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Re: 3 Sisters Snakey Osage (pic Heavy)
« Reply #27 on: March 11, 2011, 01:45:42 am »
Pat. as far as I know only two of them have been attempted. Mine failed miserably but it was the snakiest of them all and i wasn't as patient as i needed to be.  I have faith that you'll make yours work. KnightD has one too but I don't think he's done anything with it yet.
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Offline Stiks-N-Strings

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Re: 3 Sisters Snakey Osage (pic Heavy)
« Reply #28 on: March 11, 2011, 02:03:41 am »
That's the kind of stave I need for some copperheads I got. Awesome Job on an awesome bow. This one may get my vote for BOM.

 Stiks
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Re: 3 Sisters Snakey Osage (pic Heavy)
« Reply #29 on: March 11, 2011, 08:44:19 am »
Beautiful bow and very well tillered. I got the short end of that log  ;) :)I think,looks a lot like it.It was billits.Need to get it finished :)After seeing that one really makes me want to get going on it.I love snaky bows. :) :)
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