IF that were me in OO's place, it would sometime about now that I would discover that this particular osage tree was incredibly poorly suited for making bows!
Still just blows my mind. Showed this thread to the guy that taught me to build bows, his work is gorgeous. His poor jaw dropped and he was flustered. It was then he told me in all his years of building bows he had not made more than 20 of them total, and almost half were white woods! He likes the look of that pile as much as I do.