"Undulated Lady" Osage Self Bow 55# @ 28"

[Vgo750]

Beautiful bow man

[Arrowind]

Nice work!

[IdahoMatt]

That thing looks great.  Nice work on the lot of it, leather, fit and finish.

[George Tsoukalas]

Beauty! Nicely tillered.
Eric is referring to the snakiness of the grain and I agree.
Jawge

[George Tsoukalas]

Beauty! Nicely tillered.
Eric is referring to the snakiness of the grain and I agree. A pencil line drawn the middle needs to follow the ins and outs of that grain.
Jawge

[Cloudfeather]

The only spot the grain really runs off at all is that one spot out of the fade. The width of the stave had me cornered in that regard.

[George Tsoukalas]

See if this helps you understand what we are saying, Cloudfeather.

http://georgeandjoni.home.comcast.net/~georgeandjoni/layout.html

It is not a matter of the grain running out but it is a matter of  following that lateral grain from tip to tip with a pencil line and then do the width layout on either side of that line.

You have a bow with snakey grain that you layed out straight.

Right now it is what it is; we are looking towards future bows.

Jawge

[Cloudfeather]

I understand what you're saying. That doesn't change the fact that you're wrong. I just went and looked over the grain very closely. The bottom limb grain runs arrow straight and the top limb has just a tiny bit of wave to it(aside from that one spot in the fade where the grain runs off). Other than that little spot, my layout followed the grain the whole limb.

[George Tsoukalas]

Oh ok. Sorry for the bother. Jawge