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Title: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: Roy from Pa on September 19, 2015, 10:32:00 PM
Give me two years and I'll have it finished up..     :)  

These were just cut yesterday in Ohio... I'll be using the one in the back ground first..

So stay tuned for monthly updates, LOL...
 
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Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: LittleBen on September 19, 2015, 10:40:00 PM
Well at least you're building. I thought you'd just given up, lol.

Glad to see you back in the selfbow game a bit too.
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: takefive on September 20, 2015, 04:47:00 AM
It better be worth the wait...   :D
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: Dan Landis on September 20, 2015, 09:34:00 AM
Looks like some fun times ahead, the one in the foreground looks especially challenging.
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: Pat B on September 20, 2015, 10:39:00 AM
Well, I guess that will be OK.    :D
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: Roy from Pa on September 20, 2015, 11:10:00 AM
LOL, Pat..
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: fujimo on September 20, 2015, 12:25:00 PM
:laughing:  touche' Pat
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: Bowjunkie on September 20, 2015, 01:02:00 PM
Don't ever just assume Roy is gonna turn a nice Osage log into selfbow staves. I've seen him slice 'n dice nicer pieces than that.
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: kennym on September 20, 2015, 06:19:00 PM
At your age,the bark will fall off before you get to it. Might wanna hire the beetles to get it off there.  :laughing:
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: Troy D. Breeding on September 20, 2015, 06:27:00 PM
What you waiting on? Get with it ol' timer!!!
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: Roy from Pa on September 20, 2015, 07:15:00 PM
Gone away hunten in two days, gotta get everything packed up...

McKenzie, don't make me come out there boy...   :)
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: kennym on September 20, 2015, 07:16:00 PM
:D
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: Crittergetter on September 20, 2015, 10:28:00 PM
Just as long as you aren't using "fake wood"! Lol

I guess I'll have to keep an eye on this one. I might learn something from the old man. I've got an Osage stave in the corner that keeps staring at me everytime I walk by. Need to do something with it sooner or later!
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: fujimo on September 20, 2015, 10:36:00 PM
:laughing:     :laughing:
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: PEARL DRUMS on September 21, 2015, 11:12:00 AM
Started? They look like your finished bows to my eyes ol' man.
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: fujimo on September 21, 2015, 12:13:00 PM
'cept for the pink camo!
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: Roy from Pa on September 21, 2015, 12:43:00 PM
Be e-nuff outta you two girls....  :)
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: Jrunner on September 25, 2015, 03:42:00 PM
Roy would you mind sharing your lam thicknesses again.  You told me a while back that you decreased them from some of your earlier builds.  I'm determined to complete a trilam.
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: Roy from Pa on September 26, 2015, 04:53:00 PM
Osage belly 1/4" parallel. Core lams 1/4" tapered to 1/8" at tips, start the taper at the end of the riser. Taper the bottom limb core lam 1/32" thinner than the top limb core lam. So taper it to 3/32".
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: kennym on September 26, 2015, 05:00:00 PM
Can ya give us that in thousandths?  :D    :D
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: Mad Max on September 26, 2015, 05:06:00 PM
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Originally posted by kennym:
Can ya give us that in thousandths?   :D      :D  
He dudint have dat many fangers   :biglaugh:
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: kennym on September 26, 2015, 05:11:00 PM
:biglaugh:
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: Roy from Pa on September 26, 2015, 05:29:00 PM
Nuff outta you, boy..  :)
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: canopyboy on September 26, 2015, 07:56:00 PM
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Originally posted by Mark Daniel:
 
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Originally posted by kennym:
Can ya give us that in thousandths?    :D        :D  
He dudint have dat many fangers    :biglaugh:  [/b]
ROFL!
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: Troy D. Breeding on September 27, 2015, 07:16:00 AM
Like someone said a few weeks back. Roy uses fractions of an inch to make it feel primitive.
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: Dan Landis on September 27, 2015, 11:49:00 AM
No matter what he uses, you can't argue with his results.  He makes a good looking bow.
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: kennym on September 27, 2015, 12:01:00 PM
I have one o his and it is a tremendous bow. Just don't tell him I said that....  :laughing:
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: fujimo on September 27, 2015, 01:18:00 PM
x2
 i second that kenny!
i love my  "ol' fart" bow    :)
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: wood carver 2 on September 27, 2015, 01:53:00 PM
What are you doing poaching osage on the other side of the big river?
Dave.
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: fujimo on September 27, 2015, 03:07:00 PM
hey dave- how was yer moose hunt?
any luck
 sure you had a grand ol' time as well.
Title: Re: Started another Osage Bow today
Post by: wood carver 2 on September 27, 2015, 03:38:00 PM
The hunt was great! My partner and I had a staring contest with a 60 inch bull up close on Tuesday but not close enough to stick with an arrow. My buddy had two cows and a calf up close but had no tags for them, and another buddy got the best miss trophy this year. Twice for the same bull.
We saw a lot of eagles and a pair of timber wolves as well.
The boys got a few spruce grouse for a fry up too. I flung a lot of arrows but I couldn't kill any. I bonked one on the head with a judo but it got up and flew away. Tough little bugger!
And the chipmunks and whiskey jacks around our camp have high cholesterol now.    :)  
My truck looks like a garbage dump and it'll likely need a new windshield and I put about 4500 KMS on it in the last 10 days.
I love moose hunting!! Maybe by next year I'll feel like going again!    ;)  
Dave.