Hey guys I'm excited to post up my very first non-board bow as well as my first Osage bow. Comes from a stave from my brother in laws ranch whose late grandfather was a master selfbowyer. Bro in laws grandpa cut this stave down over 15 years ago and it's been aging in his shed ever since...the bugs had definitely found it but amazingly didn't get to the hardwood or at at least didn't get past a ring or so.
62@27, 62" TtT, &1 1/2" wide out a lil ways before tapering to just under 1/2" tips. Slightly flipped tips. Had a few knots to deal with and some heat alignment to do but it all seemed to go smoothly. I had this really cool kink roughly mid stave that turned out to lend itself to be an almost nature made center shot bow. The top limb is 1 1/2" longer than the bottom and the deepest part of the kink is the arrow pass.
The tiller is not perfect looking, I know...a pretty long flat spot on the top limb. That is partly intentional, partly out of fear, and partly because I just felt like I didn’t want to mess with how it was shooting. I had just finished reading a post where someones bow snapped right below a knot like I have on my top limb and the responses were mostly "Leave spots with knots stiffer!" Lol. So I did!
So after shooting and scraping and shooting and scraping I really didn't want to change anything about how it shoots now. It draws smooth, hits where I'm looking with great authority, doesn't slap my wrist one bit, and is whisper quiet.
I built up a pretty large leather rest in the handle wrap cause this will be my stand bow this year (unless I make another one I like better before then) so it had to hold an arrow on its own.
I wiped it down with 2 coats of dark Trader Joe's coffee, and then finished up with 2 coats of polyurethane.
I have not named the bow yet. All opinions and suggestions and comments are welcome.
Thanks for looking!
and then from 50 yards
ok, ok maybe it was 10
