I like it cause it's yella.

I am having a custom bow built with an osage riser. when osage is seasone it is a great looking
wood.

I like it because I can cut it on my Grandad's place and use it in a bow and get instant mojo. I like it because I can find 100 year old fence posts made out of it and that's pretty cool. I like it because it's a super heavy and hard American wood. It makes a good bow. If you want pure looks well that is just up to you. I like the look of it but more I like the "feel" of it in my bow.

Hard and heavy riser is always a good thing.

After seeing those pics, how could one say osage is "plain". Heres another to show ya:



I love osage!!! When it's new, it brings out all the woods around it. When it darkens, WOW! It is really beautiful. IMO.

I love the look of Osage as well. Not only that but the wood is the 2nd best (yew is 1st). I just don't like the deformities or "character" that osage oftens has. I'm in the middle of purchasing a beautiful recurve that has Osage from Richard who bought it from Mike at mad dog archery.

I have an Osage riser b/c I think it looks cool!  That's all that matters right?

I used to hate Osage, then it started to grow on me....
NOW, I love it!
I used it to accent the Bacote and Dirty boo, next bow is going to have a lot more than accents!

I have two osage bows, and love them both. To each their own, I guess, but I will stick with bois d' arc.

My love relationship with osage started 20 years ago, when I had the urge to build myself a selfbow, I read a few how to books, all listed osage as a top bow wood. My great uncle had a saw mill so I figured that would be a good starting place to find something to practice on. To my surprise, he had a mother load of osage cut in six foot staves or in his case, fence post. He said that he put them there 15 years ago and to help myself. He pointed out across his hay field and said "see them fence posts that aren't decaying from the ground up, those are osage. They will be there long after I'm gone. They use to make wagon axles out them, wears like iron. Don't cut to much of it any more, too hard on my saw blades." He since has passed on, those fence post are still there. Guess he was right. I still have one bow out of the two staves I took. It has aged with time, defining the unique character of the wood. I have long given up my bow building but always enjoy looking at a aged piece of hedge.

I have an osage bamboo pronghorn. It gets prettier every year. It is not my favorite wood but I do like it.

Its all i'll, more than likely, ever shoot!
Johnny/JAG

I really like osage as well.  Aged osage just looks like a bow wood to me.  I think the plainer grain goes really well with a highly figured wood.  Cocobolo and Osage pair well.  I love figured woods, but I think when you pair two highly figured woods it sometimes looks like dressing with striped pants and a polka dot shirt.  Just my opinion...Mike

The beauty of osage is in it's performance.  Glad you don't like it, more for me;-)

For some of us, ALL wood is beautiful. Eye of the beholder...

I have a Whisperstik MOJO with osage limbs it has beautiful grain and some nots in it. I just cant say enough about the way it looks.

Buffalo bow 'Manny special':
Osage coco





In a year from now, she will be dead gorgeous IN MY EYES      

F-Manny

Yes, I too have a love affair with osage. My next favorite is tulipwood. For some reason that yellow wood in osage just really turns me on. I don't know why, don't care either. It just does and always has.