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Title: Osage bow for my niece
Post by: scrub-buster on August 03, 2014, 09:45:00 PM

I just finished a bow for my niece.  She has been shooting her cousins bow a lot so I thought I would make her one for her birthday next month.  The bow is osage, 48" long and 20 lbs @ 20".  She should have room to grow with it for a while.  It finished out dead flat.  It has a bit of a dog leg in the upper limb.  The skins are some kind of small water snakes.  She was with me when I caught them.  She was catching bluegills off the dock while I was catching snakes out of a bush on the lake shore.  The bow was finished with 6 coats of tung oil.  I'm not sure what type of wood the overlays are.  I used some leather that matched them for the handle.  The string is 8 strands of pink and purple with some white strands padding the loops.  I put an over sized floppy rest on it.  I'm not sure if she cants the bow or not.

 (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16720.jpg)

 (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16718.jpg)

 (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16721.jpg)

 (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16724.jpg)

 (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16726.jpg)

 (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16728.jpg)

Title: Re: Osage bow for my niece
Post by: scrub-buster on August 03, 2014, 09:46:00 PM

(http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16730.jpg)

 (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16732.jpg)

 (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16736.jpg)

 (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16738.jpg)


My daughter with the full draw

 (http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r55/clintanders/Bows%202014/SDC16743.jpg)

Title: Re: Osage bow for my niece
Post by: halfseminole on August 03, 2014, 09:52:00 PM

Looks like nerodia fasciata skins.  Looks like water moccasins, at least superficially.  Bow looks great.

Title: Re: Osage bow for my niece
Post by: timbermoose on August 03, 2014, 09:56:00 PM

that is a sweet looking lil bow. great job!!

Title: Re: Osage bow for my niece
Post by: BMN on August 03, 2014, 10:26:00 PM

Very nice. She'll love it!

Title: Re: Osage bow for my niece
Post by: bigbob2 on August 04, 2014, 12:25:00 AM

that is one nice bow, something about Osage and snake skins!

Title: Re: Osage bow for my niece
Post by: takefive on August 04, 2014, 01:39:00 AM

Great looking bow    :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Osage bow for my niece
Post by: Roy from Pa on August 04, 2014, 05:39:00 AM

Very nice, Clint.