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Offline uncleduck

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scrap wood osage/erc
« on: July 05, 2013, 12:18:02 am »
Well a while back I was able to get a belly split off of a osage billet and was wondering what to do with it and a couple guys suggested splicing on some levers sooooooo here is my attempt. The osage had some prop twist and a dogleg that I decided just to leave and instead, line up the string by working with the angle of the splices. The osage has pretty much remained the same shape as it started. I wrapped the splices in rawhide from a dog chew then slapped on some paint to dress it up a bit.
54" ntn pulling 47#@26" zings an arrow pretty quick too.





Offline DuBois

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Re: scrap wood osage/erc
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2013, 01:52:44 am »
I love it. Nice work!

Offline Lemos

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Re: scrap wood osage/erc
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2013, 03:31:31 am »
That's slick looking! Acrylics for the paint job?

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Re: scrap wood osage/erc
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2013, 06:31:42 am »
Interesting,never would have thought to try that. :)
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Offline autologus

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Re: scrap wood osage/erc
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2013, 08:12:54 am »
I like that a lot, great job.

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Re: scrap wood osage/erc
« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2013, 08:43:19 am »
Very pretty and great curves. Nice work,.

Offline lesken2011

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Re: scrap wood osage/erc
« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2013, 08:57:24 am »
She turned out nice, Duck. I gotta short piece of osage I was thinking about trying some splices on, but wasn't sure how to conceal them. You definitely made the best outta that situation.
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Offline autologus

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Re: scrap wood osage/erc
« Reply #7 on: July 05, 2013, 09:16:15 am »
I love this idea.  I have a little 47" mulberry stave that I will be able to belly split and get two workable staves and was just considering short D bows but now I my try to splice some levers into one of them like this.  What kind of splices did you use, V splices?

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Offline burn em up chuck

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Re: scrap wood osage/erc
« Reply #8 on: July 05, 2013, 09:41:19 am »
  that is very cool, how is the splice configured ? I'm interested in this in the future.

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Re: scrap wood osage/erc
« Reply #9 on: July 05, 2013, 10:18:20 am »
That's a different but cool bow.  Great use of scraps Duck.
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Offline uncleduck

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Re: scrap wood osage/erc
« Reply #10 on: July 05, 2013, 10:32:01 am »
Thanks for the nice comments guys.

I used 2 part epoxy on a V splice about 1.5" long with the osage being the outside. This was my first time trying to splice anything so I was a little nervous about if it would hold or not. I had the joint wrapped with serving and soaked in super  glue while I tillered it, then realized I could take quite a bit of bulk off of the joint so I peeled off the serving and rasped the mass down a bit. When all was said and done, I rewrapped the splices with rawhide glued on w tb3 (first time ever using rawhide also) but I left my string wrapped on the rawhide too long and left it a little bumpier than I would have liked. Luckily those dog chew rawhides are pretty thick so I was able to sand it down a bit once they dried. Acrylic paints right over the rawhide then sealed up everything with a spray coat of shellac.

I probably could have taken the levers down in size a bit but was unsure how much more I could get away with because they are ERC. At the size they are at now, they don't cause any handshock and the arrow speed seems pretty good so I am just going to leave as is.

I'll try to get a f/d pic today.

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Re: scrap wood osage/erc
« Reply #11 on: July 05, 2013, 10:38:22 am »
Did you lace the rawhide or how did you deal with the seam?  Also how wide are your bending limbs?

Grady
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Re: scrap wood osage/erc
« Reply #12 on: July 05, 2013, 10:53:13 am »
Great Bow! Ed
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Re: scrap wood osage/erc
« Reply #13 on: July 10, 2013, 04:07:53 pm »
I just put some tb3 on one side of the rawhide and wrapped it around and overlapped it on itself about an inch, then wrapped it with some string I had laying around until the rawhide/glue was dry. The working limb width is about 1 5/8".

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Re: scrap wood osage/erc
« Reply #14 on: July 10, 2013, 04:12:19 pm »
Awesome, thanks.  This is one of my all time favorite bows I have seen on this site.  Well done, it is very much an inspiration.

Grady
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