I generally stay out of the shop during deer season but it ends next Sunday. I am giddy with anticipation :) What shall I make? What SHALL I make??? Hmmmm...
Here's the raw material from last year's woodcutting. Got most of it into blank form last winter and it's been hibernating just waiting to assume osage's noblest form.
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Well that looks like one or two bows in there. I will get out get some cut. I talked with a lady that had a hedge in her yard she wants gone. I am going to look at it after the first and see if it will make a bow. If not I have a friend or two that will use it in their stoves.
Good luck John
Looks like you got a plan Johnny!
I need to cut some ol hedge myself.
Stacked firewood in the shop and ill be roughing bows, chasing rings and splitting wood for the next week or so . Work slows down this time of year. To a crawl actually, but on the bright side... It almost bow building season. Happy hunting everyone.
I'm about ready to get back at it myself. Wiuth 2 bow trades coming up plus a few promised bows I should have a busy winter. The landscape company I work for puts all of its workers on temproary(seasonal) unemployment for a few months so I'll actually get paid to build bows.
Great to see you back at it Pat. What number am I on the list now????..LOL.
I havent figured out the trick to stopping yet! Couple of the bottom logs look HUGE
Arrows John, don't forget 'bout the arrows! With just a bow, you only got a bow. But with arrows too, you will have a bows & arrows :readit: .
Quite a load for the Ute John, This is my last haul. OLD logs That are talking to me bad.
PEARLIE! Close yer eyes. (I do have a Christmas present for you tho).
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That is a wonderful Mullberry tree that sits in a bad spot right out side my shop door. I have a purple walk way for about 10 feet going in. The bugs,coon and birds are real bad tho. It will be removed in the spring I think.
This thread got me thinking, I need to get some bow blanks ready for my charitable donations this spring.
I store my osage under my house and it never gets below 16% MC. I better move some wood to the "on deck circle" in my shop.
Been working on a flintlock all winter. I need to put it down for a few days and work on some OSAGE.
John and Chuck you making bows by the cord now? Put a stamp on one of those logs and send it west :)
Too many hitches with my get-along this year to hunt much.... thank goodness my bow season opened early....
Yup, John. Already started. It is not as easy as it used to be to knock off a bow. I can't do it in a day now. Little by little. :) Jawge
I'm gonna have to wait another month. Shop is full of hunting gear, hunting clothes and Christmas decorations. I can't move in there and hunting season aint over till the end of January.
Hey guy's,,, be sure not to forget to post a bunch of pics this season!
:thumbsup: That'll keep you out of trouble for awhile! I'm hoping to get a load of Osage on my way to the KS Bunny stomp Kelly put together.
Got me thinking also, Scifres. your a nut but an awesome bowcrafter.
JD
Don't sell yourself short J.D. your bows are passable, and you have great taste in Baseball. Go Cards.
" That'll keep you out of trouble for awhile!"
Ha! It is activities like this that has me in the DOG HOUSE! Funny how good clean fun can get a feller in to so much trouble with the other half. :biglaugh:
Seeing some names on here that I haven't seen in a while. Sure hope to make it to Ojam this year! Have 2 osage in the works right now and finished a nice Hickory last spring...Getting the bug back!!
Terry
I got a new place to cut this year too. Supposed to be chock full of sage :) I'll wait until I got few bows done for that though.
Jd's taste in baseball is soiles by his taste in football. Haha. Back to the shop.