I have used about every type of osage and find it falls in a bunch of different categories, dark, standard bright yellow color, very light with little difference between sapwood and heart wood color, extra wide ring, wide ring, 1/4-1/8th" rings, tight ring and rings so tight you can't separate different rings with the naked eye.
You have the rock hard osage also hard buttery stuff that is like slicing a green potato, no splintering. Next would be the hard osage that splinters and tears followed by grainy soft osage that has a very light physical weight when compared to the hard, dense osage.
Early wood, late wood ratios vary considerably with sharp thin late wood rings and late wood rings in other staves blurred, wide and seemingly bleeding into the early wood rings.
My favorite is the hard osage with paper thin late wood lines, 1/8th to 1/4" wood rings, buttery, bright yellow wood that doesn't splinter, that takes heat well and doesn't return to it's former configuration after being corrected.