« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2

Author Topic: Osage recurve rework  (Read 5773 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

mikekeswick

  • Guest
Osage recurve rework
« on: January 10, 2012, 08:35:38 pm »
This is a little teaser of an osage recurve I took the plung and re-worked. It was my favourite bow for a long time but I kept looking at it and thinking ' umm I could just change that and that...and it would be better'. So finally plucked up the courage and took the old sinew backing off, heat treated it and bent it to how I wanted it. Shortened the recurves and sharpened the bend a little. Trapped the back and narrowed the outer limbs. 2 layers of sinew later and a bit of tillering and this is what i've got now. Fully draw to come because the handle glue was still damp.


Logged

mikekeswick

  • Guest
Re: Osage recurve rework
« Reply #1 on: January 10, 2012, 08:37:36 pm »
That last pic is 5 inches of reflex >:D
Logged

Offline PEARL DRUMS

  • Member
  • Posts: 14,079
  • }}}--CK-->
Re: Osage recurve rework
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2012, 08:39:09 pm »
I just love reworks! Its like a new bow with half the work.
Logged
Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.

Offline soy

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,897
  • pm106221
Re: Osage recurve rework
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2012, 08:49:36 pm »
Nice! Can't wait to see the$shot >:D
Logged
Is this bow making a sickness? or the cure...

Offline tattoo dave

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,545
  • Rockford, MI
Re: Osage recurve rework
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2012, 09:20:59 pm »
Sweet lookin bow Mike!!! I like the deer, or is that an elk?

Tattoo Dave
Logged
Rockford, MI

Offline Will H

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,120
Re: Osage recurve rework
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2012, 09:48:09 pm »
Love it!  ;D  The deer looks like cave art of a red stag, a very nice touch  ;)  Cant wait to see the full draw!
~Will
Logged
Proud Member of Twin Oaks Bowhunters
           Clarksville, Tennessee

   "Middle Tennessee is the place to be"

Offline Pappy

  • Global Moderator
  • Member
  • Posts: 32,137
  • if you have to ask you wouldn't understand ,Tenn.
Re: Osage recurve rework
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2012, 07:24:56 am »
Looking good so far,I should do more of that.  :)
   Pappy
Logged
Clarksville,Tennessee
TwinOaks Bowhunters
Life is Good

Offline dwardo

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,456
Re: Osage recurve rework
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2012, 01:02:55 pm »
Looks like a winner!
I have two here that i know could be much much better,, this has given me the shuv i needed ;)

Very nice work as usual.
Logged

Offline toomanyknots

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,132
Re: Osage recurve rework
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2012, 01:16:43 pm »
You should post that up close pic of the sinew you posted over on paleoplanet. It was so smooth and perfect it didn't even look like sinew... What do you use for that by the way? Do you press something smooth down while it's drying?
Logged
"The way of heaven is like the bending of a bow-
 the upper part is pressed down,
 the lower part is raised up,
 the part that has too much is reduced,
 the part that has too little is increased."

- Tao Te Ching, 77, A new translation by Victor H. Mair

Offline ErictheViking

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,504
Re: Osage recurve rework
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2012, 01:18:40 pm »
Good looking bow! cant wait to see it braced and pulled back when the sinew dries.
Logged
"He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart"  C.S. Lewis

mikekeswick

  • Guest
Re: Osage recurve rework
« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2012, 05:50:54 am »





Finally got the braced/drawn pictures done. I'm really happy with how it shoots now, I re-shaped the handle and the arrowpass area and it seems to have done the trick. I'm going to be chronoing it later today and will post the results.
Logged

Offline PeteC

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,005
Re: Osage recurve rework
« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2012, 12:13:02 pm »
Now that's what I'm talkin' about. That is a great bow,and job of re-building.I like everything about it,and that is "the" tiller for that bow. Great work. God Bless
Logged
What you believe determines how you behave., Pete Clayton, Whitehouse ,Texas

Offline Dazv

  • Member
  • Posts: 472
Re: Osage recurve rework
« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2012, 12:18:11 pm »
that is some bow!!!!! Just look at that tiller!!!!!!!!!!!!
Logged

Offline Cameroo

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,579
    • Cam's Stuff
Re: Osage recurve rework
« Reply #13 on: January 15, 2012, 12:43:27 pm »
That looks about as good as they get Mike.  Did you lose any draw weight?

A friend of mine wants me to make him an osage recurve, which I've never done before, but if I do, this is what I'll be shooting for!  ;D  How wide are the limbs at the fades?  You say you trapped the back - I'm kind of curious to know why, because I don't remember hearing of anyone doing that on an osage selfbow before.  Were you worried about the belly being under too much stress?  Was it a fairly mild "trapping"?

Sorry for the 20 questions!
Logged

Offline Pat B

  • Administrator
  • Member
  • Posts: 37,618
Re: Osage recurve rework
« Reply #14 on: January 15, 2012, 01:22:13 pm »
Nice rework and beautiful results. Well done!  8)
Logged
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC
Pages: [1] 2
« previous next »