Trash or Treasure? (Pile of osage gold)

[Danzn Bar]

 He most likely would if the opinion was in the form of a osage bend through the handle Badly Bent bow received in the mail. 

[beetlebailey1977]

If you don't want it.....send it to me I will pay shipping.

[Fred Arnold]

Looks like it's a treasure of snakey yeller wood. That should produce some Nice challenging bows. Something about that damned orange is the uglier it starts, the prettier it ends. Yew and others can't always do that!!!!! 

[Matt Heppe]

A friend came over and we split the log. It was our first time making staves from a log and it went surprisingly well. The wood split very straight, with a few wiggles around knots. The outside wood is damaged, but there is plenty of good stuff inside.

We split it:



Split it again:



And split it again until we came up with:



Out of eight staves it looks like four are definite bows, one might make a very snakey bow, and three will make billets. There is also a possibility that some of the four "definites" might yield more than one bow, but I'm not going to push my luck too hard.

Three of the staves ran off and got skinny at one end:



But overall it looks like a nice pile of gold:

[beetlebailey1977]

Seal the ends good.  Seal the backs also......even better get the sapwood off and seal the backs.

[Poggins]

Those that ran off might make good bows , if not hunting then kids bows . I save everything that might make a bow , it's all good practice anyway .

[osage outlaw]

Looks good.  You might be able take the ones that ran off and make billets out of them for a take down, or spliced bow.