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Offline CrazyHorse1969

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Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
« on: July 13, 2015, 05:48:49 pm »
My dad--with permission--cut a few live Osage and Black Locust trees from a relative's property in Ohio then hauled them up to me in Michigan. I split, quartered, and sealed the staves and eventually hauled an Osage stave across country and part of the Great Plains--well, all of Nebraska and part of the Northeast corner of Colorado--to my new residence in Colorado and figured I would build a Plains-style Osage self bow. I loosely went with a set of dimensions from one of the bows in the _Encyclopedia of Native American Bows, Arrows & Quivers Volume 2_. Mine is longer.

I finished the bow with Tru-Oil and wrapped the handle with red wool and deerskin lace. It is a simple bow--in fact, only the seventh bow I have built--but it has been shooting hard and fast.

Thanks for looking...
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Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2015, 06:16:11 pm »
That a really nice bow especially for your seventh. It looks like it came from a good clean well chosen stave.  :)
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Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2015, 06:22:13 pm »
Yes indeed, a fine looking bow for #7.  Congrats on the good work!
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Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2015, 07:03:21 pm »
The beauty is in the bend....and you have a beauty right there.
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Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2015, 07:13:34 pm »
Nice bend! 👍.... Brian
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Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2015, 07:44:52 pm »
Beautiful bend. Well done!   8)
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Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
« Reply #6 on: July 13, 2015, 08:33:27 pm »
Thanks, guys! My bows are getting a little better. I should point out that the other stave I brought with me was Black Locust, and I snapped that one in half trying to straighten it with dry heat. Oh well. I actually sort of rushed the Osage bow. I roughed it out when I first worked on the original Ohio stash and only let it dry for 4-5 months (something like that). But the arid weather out here in Colorado really sped up the curing time. I, too, only put three coats of Tru-Oil on the Osage in case I have to scrape it off and re-work it down the road.
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Offline Aaron H

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Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2015, 09:02:52 pm »
Man that thing looks great, awesome bend
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Offline Stixnstones

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Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
« Reply #8 on: July 13, 2015, 09:17:10 pm »
Congrats on one hellava bow, that bend is smoove😄
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Offline CrazyHorse1969

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Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
« Reply #9 on: July 14, 2015, 09:15:58 am »
Quote from: stixnstones on July 13, 2015, 09:17:10 pm
Congrats on one hellava bow, that bend is smoove😄

Thanks!
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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
« Reply #10 on: July 14, 2015, 09:53:56 am »
Way to go trout killer! That looks like a real nice fit in your hands.
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Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
« Reply #11 on: July 14, 2015, 11:02:50 am »
Real nice bow
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Offline bowmo

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Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
« Reply #12 on: July 14, 2015, 11:26:19 am »
Really nice. I love simple d-bows
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Offline Ryan C

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Re: Plains-style Osage self bow 56" nock-to-nock 40#@25"
« Reply #13 on: July 14, 2015, 11:37:29 am »
Nice bow and cool story about the stave.
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