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Title: Re: Another Osage Bow Finished
Post by: wooddamon1 on February 07, 2025, 07:38:29 AM

Got one finished up for this years seasons. 64" 58@#28" Osage selfbow with rattler skins, Ostrich leather grip and shelf with a beaver tail strike plate. Vinagroon stain. Bocote/purpleheart tips. Top limb has twist both ways and had a few inches of natural reflex from mid-limb out to the tip. Great, well balanced shooter. Hits where I want and seems pretty quick. Unbraced pic is immediately after shooting, it holds a little more reflex in the top limb, but both have some after resting.

Title: Re: Another Osage Bow Finished
Post by: wooddamon1 on February 07, 2025, 07:40:26 AM

A few more pics.

Title: Re: Another Osage Bow Finished
Post by: wooddamon1 on February 07, 2025, 07:41:21 AM

And a few more.

Title: Re: Another Osage Bow Finished
Post by: wooddamon1 on February 07, 2025, 07:42:28 AM

Got a few more.

Title: Re: Another Osage Bow Finished
Post by: wooddamon1 on February 07, 2025, 07:44:22 AM

And some more.

Title: Re: Another Osage Bow Finished
Post by: Watsonjay on February 07, 2025, 09:33:02 AM

Nice!  Ive yet to successfully make a good stickbow. I always seem to crack the tips when I go to heat bend reflex into them.

Title: Re: Another Osage Bow Finished
Post by: Roy from Pa on February 07, 2025, 09:50:28 AM

Very nice work.

 :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Another Osage Bow Finished
Post by: Mo_coon-catcher on February 07, 2025, 10:00:09 AM

Looks great!

Kyle

Title: Re: Another Osage Bow Finished
Post by: Buemaker on February 07, 2025, 10:58:58 AM

Looooking goood.

Title: Re: Another Osage Bow Finished
Post by: wooddamon1 on February 07, 2025, 06:37:29 PM

Thank you, gentlemen!

Title: Re: Another Osage Bow Finished
Post by: Kirkll on February 07, 2025, 07:53:14 PM

Cool looking bow!   Is it just the photo, or is one of those limbs holding more reflex at the tip unstrung?   She looks pretty decent at full draw though…

Question?  How did you get the white dots along the edge of the limbs? Paint pen perhaps?  That is a cool decoration idea…     Kirk

Title: Re: Another Osage Bow Finished
Post by: wooddamon1 on February 08, 2025, 09:58:48 AM

Kirk, thanks!  Yep, had a few inches of natural reflex on the top limb, still has more than the bottom. Had fun tillering

I used an acrylic paint marker with a medium tip for the dots.