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Offline Gaur

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Osage Take down I walked a friend through
« on: September 16, 2014, 08:23:49 pm »
My long time friend Rick wanted to make a bow for his brother as a gift.  I let him pick a set of osage billets and a snake skin.  He picked a set of billets that ended up having a bit of snakey in them.  I was a little jelous as I didn't know they were snakey.  The snake skin he chose was a skin form a young reticulated python that I had been looking for a long time as I wanted a nice tight pattern.  Fortunately I got another one recently.  Rick did most of the work on the bow as I walked him through it.


Tips are Siamese rosewood. 

We used take down sleeves and then rattan wrap for the grip over the stainless





68" ntn.  I put the scale on it this morning and it came out to 55# @ 28".  His brother is a lefty.  I need to still put a leather arrow rest on it.





put in my photo editor and using the straightening tool helps me see the tiller better.


Thanks for looking.  Hoping to make some more bows this year as this last year we moved back to the US and have been busy getting settled/remodeling.
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Offline JonW

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Re: Osage Take down I walked a friend through
« Reply #1 on: September 16, 2014, 08:26:07 pm »
Nice bow. Those skins are KILLER!
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Re: Osage Take down I walked a friend through
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2014, 08:43:02 pm »
Nice job....good to see ya around again randy :)
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Offline hunterbob

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Re: Osage Take down I walked a friend through
« Reply #3 on: September 16, 2014, 08:58:08 pm »
Nice . your teaching your friend well.
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Osage Take down I walked a friend through
« Reply #4 on: September 16, 2014, 09:30:31 pm »
Nice work. beautiful bend on that thing nice design and specs..and a take-down!!! Nice gifting by both of you. 
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Offline Gaur

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Re: Osage Take down I walked a friend through
« Reply #5 on: September 16, 2014, 09:41:33 pm »
thanks all.  Well I didn't have lots of choices for making a take down.  I've lived overseas for many years so I bring the US woods as billets in duffle bags or con visitors to bring them to me.  Now that we are living in MN I am looking forward to making some one piece bows for a change.  Though you still might see a take down or two as I still have some sleeves and a few billets left.
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Offline NTD

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Re: Osage Take down I walked a friend through
« Reply #6 on: September 16, 2014, 10:19:34 pm »
Very nice.  Young retics definitely make nice skins for bows!
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Re: Osage Take down I walked a friend through
« Reply #7 on: September 16, 2014, 10:23:51 pm »
That is a beautiful bow.  Great job on it
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Re: Osage Take down I walked a friend through
« Reply #8 on: September 17, 2014, 03:23:25 am »
That's a great looking bow  :) and the tiller looks dead on to me.
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Offline Badly Bent

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Re: Osage Take down I walked a friend through
« Reply #9 on: September 17, 2014, 07:53:22 am »
Your teamwork paid off, that bow is very nice. Your friends brother is getting one sweet bow there. :)
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Offline 4dog

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Re: Osage Take down I walked a friend through
« Reply #10 on: September 17, 2014, 07:57:35 am »
nothin else.to say ..... cept...very nice bow...looks great!
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Offline Hrothgar

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Re: Osage Take down I walked a friend through
« Reply #11 on: September 17, 2014, 08:06:39 am »
Very nice bow, excellent tiller!
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Re: Osage Take down I walked a friend through
« Reply #12 on: September 17, 2014, 02:58:22 pm »
always wonder where you guys get all the snake skins ... oooh, and an excellent bow here, must be a good teacher!
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Re: Osage Take down I walked a friend through
« Reply #13 on: September 17, 2014, 03:15:45 pm »
Nice bow Randy, good to see you here again.
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Offline Gaur

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Re: Osage Take down I walked a friend through
« Reply #14 on: September 17, 2014, 03:16:08 pm »
thanks for the replies. 

Simson I've lived overseas in Thailand for the last 20 years.  I am always watching for road kill.  I am friends with some of the snake handlers at the snake farm where they do shows for tourists.  Every once in a while one dies and I have gotten a few that way.  Then there are the pythons that get caught eating farmers chickens near the fish hatchery I work at.  Word has gotten around that I like the skins so people give them to me.  I recently cleaned out the freezer and dried a few that I had in there.  Burmese python, Reticulated python and cobras.  My wife loved having those in the freezer ;)
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