Let me show you 2 plains osage bows, 5 curve. The first is a set with 4 arrows, made as a gift for my friend Karl.
The second, from sister stave, with a little more drawweight is mine.
1. Karl's:It is several times heat corrected (twist and deflex and string alignment); tips are steamed slightly back; backset by dry heat; sinewed in two layers.
The set comes with 4 arrows, 3 arrows are dogwood shafts fletched with black headed gull, 1 is a privet shaft with guineafowl feathers.
All 4 shafts are tapered and grooved, groove filled with earth pigments plus hide glue, nocks are heavily tempered and reinforced with sinew wrapping as also the trade points.
specs:
Length: 46"
braceheight: 4,25"
drawlength: 25"
drawweight: 54#
mass: 320 g (total)
w/d: 31/17 mm grip
24/13 mm midlimb
19/ 11 tips
sinew is roe and deer
snakeskin: diamondback
2. Mine:
Here is my osage plains bow, it's the sister bow of Karl's.
The bow is 49 ntn, several times heat corrected and untwisted, tips are slightly steamed back, backset by dry heat.
Three layers of sinew covered with diamond back snake skin. Horse hair tassel on the upper nock. Handle is brown buckskin, hemp binding, underlay leather is red dyed moose.
Arrow point is the glass of an olive oil bottle, two feather fletching, privet shaft.
Specs:
ntn 49"
braceheight 4"
drawlength 24"
drawweight 62#
mass 412g (incl. string and skin)
bending handle
w/d: 30/19 mm grip
26/14 mm midlimb
19/8 mm tips
