Jim Rempp, who is maybe the best sinew bow builder alive, and I are going to do something wild in the next few weeks!  We are going to splice together one Osage billet and one Yew billit!  We will be taking pictures all the way through the process.  If I can figure out how to post them here and if anyone is interested, we will keep everyone posted as we build the bow.

Will it work?  Will it shoot well?  will it hold together?  Only the Shadow knows, and he ain't tellin'!

Too Short (Paul Brunner)

Too Short, sounds cool.  

Just create a photobucket account and upload your pictures there.   Its easy to cut and paste the links to your posts.


If you can't figure it out, let me know and I'll post them for ya.

It begs the question ....why?

Congrats on that dink buck from Tejas TS  

Well duh!! you bet I'm interested.

What evil lerks in the minds of men?  :eek:

Of course, I am interested.    Jawge

I am interested!  Anything weird makes me feel more normal!
Mike

Will be watching closely from my home in South Dakota! Too short makes fine bows too!!!


justin

One things fer sure, it'll be a "one of kind" bow, unless you decide to make another with the two remaining halves  

What are you trying to prove with the experiment?  What are your theories?  Novel idea, but what are you guys thinking?  I will definitely follow the thread, because I love this stuff.  It would be more enjoyable if we knew the whys of it.

I'd like to see how it goes too.

If I can figure it out (pics), Paul, then so can you!  

A new approach to using up them odds-n-ends laying around the shop, huh?

I've been considering doing the same with two busted in the tiller stage bows. Seen spliced conglomerations at MOJam but never two woods like this. Keep it coming

Looking forward to it Too Short!

Something new can definitely be interesting, but I'm with ferret on this one, why the dual personality limbs? Tillering stage should be interesting though. - eric

Made one years ago for a customer in TX , sorry cant remember his name. We called the bow Yewsage.
Funny thing was that the bow was fairly symetrical even with the disimilar woods.
Yewsage was yew on the top limb and osage on the bottom , takedown with sinew back . To my knowledge its still shooting fine.
Just goes to proove you dont need matched billets but rather the matching is done by tillering.

It will work. Made one myself this past summer but as a T/D. Also named it Yew-Sage. Yew upper limb with rawhide backing.Osage lower limb. The yew limb has roughly twice the mass of the osage limb.Shoots fine. 66" ntn 48#@28". Lower yew limb blew at 28 1/4".I couldn't afford a yew billet and I had a short osage stave laying around.Looks kind of funky but it shoots. LOL.

Years ago I spliced a narrow limbed soapwood selfbow bottom limb and a pyramid limbed grey ironbark limb together and made a wild looking two tone nice shooting 45# bow from them - that bow is still going last I heard as I gave it away to a lady who was intent on owning it .As both bows where differant lengths and drawweights and had done a bit of shooting it was tough to get the tiller right . Good luck with the sinew backing that will add a new dimention - just how do you lay it up and maintain balanced limbs - love to see it done . regards Perry

Why?  Because it's weird and so am I and so is Jim Rempp.

We'll be starting next weekend and will figure out this photo thing.

Too Short and weird!

Go Paulie go,
I wanna watch.
Bert

If you can figure out how to make that selfbow....you can figure out howta post the pics silly Paul!

I'll be watching this one!