thinking about ordering a osage recurve, riser and limbs, what woods go well with osage.  

pictures always welcome.

Here's a golden anniversary Black Widow:

   

And here's a Morrison Shawnee:

   

Both primarily built from osage with accents of various other woods.

I think osage looks good with about any medium brown to dark brown wood. Be it walnut, Ipe, shedua..etc.
Bubuinga & chechen, can look very nice with their orangish tones.

White woods can look very nice with osage too..just not my preference.

My favorite combo I seen is bacote and osage.
it's not great looking when "fresh"..but...
Once the osage darkens to it's golden color I find the lighter colored grains in the bacote really compliments the osage and they pull together to make a great combo.

I've always liked cocobolo with osage.

Purpleheart goes really well with Osage.

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I've always liked cocobolo with osage.

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I've always liked cocobolo with osage.

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Maybe Macassar or Zircote, and of course cocobolo.

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I've always liked cocobolo with osage.

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Bocote or figured Walnut.  Ziricote also.

Yellow heart stays yellow, if that's a concern.

Cocobolo and osage - my first custom bow was ordered with this combo!

Never seen the combo but I'd bet zircote looks awesome with Osage.

1. cocobolo
2. bocote
3. wenge
4. zircote
Everything dark goes with osage. Great when it is new and bright, and great when it ages.

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Here's one that I certainly wouldn't mind having

Pretty sure that's yew GDPolk.

Thanks for the relies---I was leaning towards bolivian rosewood but never consider bocote------hmmm---- bet that would look nice!   Ill have to ask the bowyer what woods he has on hand that would best complement his osage. As we all know---woods vary greatly in color and character even within its own specie.

The last custom bow I had made was cocobolo riser and yew limbs. The bow was absolutely stunning new but the coco is turning a real chocolate brown and losing some of the beautiful swirling grain it possesses. Still a nice combo, and beautiful bow.

I know for me traditional bows made of richly colored grain and beautiful tones is something I enjoy. I sit in my stand just admiring them.

Osage will darken with age, it turnes a honey brown. I have a BW with Kingwood and Osage I got the bow I believe in 2008 and the Osage is just a little lighter color then the Kingwood.

If I was to do this over I would go with Co Co Bolo with a lot of red in it or something lighter in color.

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Pretty sure that's yew GDPolk.

Good to know.  Cell phones make some woods harder to tell apart.  Either way it sure is pretty!