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Offline Pappy

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Backwards Osage [shooting]
« on: March 17, 2010, 07:00:30 am »
Gary made it down Monday night and Tuesday we went to work on the backwards Osage bows,
They worked out great,These were split from a small Osage tree,right down the pith.Then just flattened out with a rasp.now ring chased on the back.The bark/sap wood side is the belly.They have 3 layers of sinew but I think it could be done without doing that.It is kind of like a decrowned stave.
Here are some pictures of the bows.We both still new to do the finish work but they both shoot great and have been shot in.Gary's was 66 n-n and started with 1 1/2 inch of reflex and wound up with about 1/2 in.right after unstringing mine started with 1 inch of reflex and flat right after shooting.Both recover almost all of the reflex after a little rest time. This is just another option
for small Osage that you don't want to glue a handle section on. :) Gary's finished 55@ 27 and mine 53@26. I also fliped the tips on mine,learned that you can still heat one if you go slow and easy with sinew on.

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Re: Backwards Osage [shooting]
« Reply #1 on: March 17, 2010, 07:02:58 am »
A few more of shooting them.I will get back when we get the skins on and the rest of the finish work done. :)
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Re: Backwards Osage [shooting]
« Reply #2 on: March 17, 2010, 07:37:16 am »
Lookin' good
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Offline DanaM

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Re: Backwards Osage [shooting]
« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2010, 08:19:19 am »
Cool bows Pappy, looks like you and Gary spent some quality time together :)
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Re: Backwards Osage [shooting]
« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2010, 12:02:43 pm »
Cool little bows Pappy.  ;D
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Re: Backwards Osage [shooting]
« Reply #5 on: March 17, 2010, 01:01:21 pm »
   Looks really good.
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Offline Dave 55

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Re: Backwards Osage [shooting]
« Reply #6 on: March 17, 2010, 01:07:39 pm »
Really nice lookin bows Pappy and what an interesting way to go about it,its going to be a good while before I have the skills to pull something like that off. :)
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Re: Backwards Osage [shooting]
« Reply #7 on: March 17, 2010, 02:43:46 pm »
Good to see the Old guys out there shootin, nice bows as always! ;D

It's still  funny seeing Gary wearing bibs!

Good shootin, and Happy St. Patricks,

Steve
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Re: Backwards Osage [shooting]
« Reply #8 on: March 17, 2010, 04:39:32 pm »
Nice job pappy, Good looking bows. Good for you guys doing something different.
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Re: Backwards Osage [shooting]
« Reply #9 on: March 17, 2010, 04:54:57 pm »
Those are cool! Great job I really never thought you could do it that way. I'm always learning and that's part of what makes it so fun.
Mark
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Re: Backwards Osage [shooting]
« Reply #10 on: March 17, 2010, 05:10:47 pm »
They look great Pappy....now We can even make Bows from the Limbs we used to burn.....  ;D
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Offline venisonburger

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Re: Backwards Osage [shooting]
« Reply #11 on: March 17, 2010, 05:29:04 pm »
Lookin good Pappy, you guys finished them up pretty quick
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Re: Backwards Osage [shooting]
« Reply #12 on: March 17, 2010, 10:50:08 pm »
Very cool, thanks for sharing this.  Did you say that you flipped the tips with the bow already backed with sinew?  What kind of glue did you use, and how slow did you go?  That is really interesting.  I'm working on a sinew backed osage and might want to flip the tips post sinew.
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Re: Backwards Osage [shooting]
« Reply #13 on: March 17, 2010, 10:55:18 pm »
You Guys sure do that Osage right :) Phillip
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Offline nclonghunter

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Re: Backwards Osage [shooting]
« Reply #14 on: March 17, 2010, 11:40:30 pm »
Those are some very interesting bows. I'm a fan of the decrowned bows and those are great. I would have liked to seen the results without the backing added. Well done.
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