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Main Boards => The Bowyer's Bench => Topic started by: Roy from Pa on September 22, 2017, 05:59:00 PM
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But my back hurts.. That stuff is heavy.
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Roy, Quite the haul, is this from your area of PA?
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About 40 miles NW of my place.
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That should heat your workshop for most of the winter Roy.
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That'll make some nice risers for them glass bows you been buildin.
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Nice Roy
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Show us how you make your first cut's from log to lams?
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I'll split them with wedges.
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I'd say it was worth the drive!!!
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Originally posted by Roy from Pa:
I'll split them with wedges.
and then?
keep it coming
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Hey, wait a minute. 40 miles northwest of YOUR place puts it closer to MY place.
Never wore a hardhat when cutting osage, but there were times I wished I woulda :knothead:
Congrats on the yellarwood, bud.
Hey, don't cut it all into lumber this time. At least make ONE selfbow for cryin' out loud. I see a couple of prime specimens. It would be a crime if you just sawed them up for BBO's.
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BBO's rock.... :)
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Looks like you got the good, bad and the ugly, I don't like to waste a piece if possible either.
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Yupper Eric. Ya always need pieces for riser blocks is the way I look at it.
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Nice haul, Roy. Nothing like fresh cut osage, good, bad or ugly. :thumbsup:
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Puts me in the mood to go cut some myself. Nice haul Roy.
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Oh man I'm so jealous. I can't get Osage up here at my hardwood store of choice.
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And what kind of bow would you build if you had Osage?
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Gwass, of course!
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Mitch go cut some. What I hate most is the 2 years ya gotta let it dry and season a bit. And 5 year old Osage is super stuff.. :) But I hain't got much of that left.. But I do have a couple pieces of 10 year old Osage.
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Glass backed (clear) reflex deflex longbow. ( my design) :)
Put some Osage under the clear so it just makes the bow pop!
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Roy - it is on the to do list. I haven't cut any for a couple of years, but I do have several seasoned staves to keep me going for a while.
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Congrats Roybert!
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Love that yellar wood........ :thumbsup:
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Looking good. Wish I actually had some growing around here. Just lots of mulberry ....
Care to show us how you mill it? You'd need quite the rig to get a big log like that onto the table of a vertical bandsaw.
I've been thinking of building a long sled with indeed and outfeed table for my bandsaw to mill some logs ...
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Ben, those big logs are 36 inches long. That's because of how they grew and what I was allowed to take. I got as many 36 inch pieces as I could. Some will be for lams and others will be for risers. I did get one beaut that was 64 inches long.
The 36 inch ones will be split with a wedge till I get them down closer to an extra large Osage stave size. Then I put a 3/4" X 3 tpi blade on my bandsaw and square them up and then I cut billet boards from there on. I try to get as many 1/4 sawn pieces as I can, then as many rift sawn as I can. Then if possible I'll cut some riser blocks out of it. Osage is like gold and I don't want to waste any of it. But for the first year they will just be split with the wedge and left to dry.
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Thanks Roy.
I guess I assumed you were cutting the logs on the bandsaw before splitting. I'll have to try that method, split first, then saw.