Osage Boo and the chop saw!!

[Bjorn]

A couple of monthe ago my fat ass found my new glue up on the couch, and there was a very loud SNAP!
I had another old half too, and was about to turn the 2 broken glue-ups into fire wood; and just as the saw started up, I got a vision.
Mike at Dryad bows thought it would be a neat idea too!

I ordered a takedown sleeve from my friend Ted at Raptor Archery.
The two halves were totally different in color and weight, so while waiting for the sleeve I made the stave profiles equal, and decided to see about dyeing the backs to match.

The fitting and cutting of the handle ends, and the glueing and mating was really fiddly, but with a few words of advice from Ted it moved along. The bow had to line up straight.

It all came together well, and I tillered the two separate halves to make one bow.

Here it is with a Yew bow I made for my son a couple of months ago. Also from a Dryad glue up.

It ended up at 64" and 48#@28 and shoots a mean woodie!
The wrap is 'distressed Goat'-very distressed! LOL!



In the end it turned out to be a fun project and a very fine shooting bow!

[Apex Predator]

That turned out awesome!  Great job.

[Michael Golden]

Nice Work.

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Nice... I have some billets I need to get  the take down sleeves from Ted, too..


Great job & nice looking bows.

[BMN]

Nicely done!

[MJB]

Bjorn      

[hotfootTG]

Neat-O Bjorn! Beautiful job. I want to shoot it at the range tonight - OK?

Al

[Widowbender]

Nice lemons into lemonade!!!
Very pretty bow!!      

David

[TRAP]

Very nice work Bjorn,

I like the goat more than the snapper    

Trap

[wingnut]

Nice Job!!  See I told ya that it would work. .LOL

A very nice way to make a couple of mistakes into a great bow.

Mike

[dino]

Mike - does that mean that two wrongs make a right or a bow..?    

Nice work Bjorn!!

dino

[Bjorn]

I had a PM about the dye and the finish........I mixed black and brown Rit leather dye, and wiped it away where I didn't want it as much.
The bow is covered with several coats of Tru Oil applied with paper towel.
Somewhere I said the bow is 48#; well hopefully that will be the case with the next one. This bow finished at about 42#@28 on my scale-they seem to loose about 5# during the final shooting-in process-have others found that too?

[Bakes168]

Very nice! That's some good craftsmanship.