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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Osage longbow - eastern woodland style - 54# @ 29"
« on: July 15, 2015, 05:25:45 pm »
Osage longbow. 68" nock to nock. 54# at 29" draw
Mammoth Ivory striekplate inlay. Pin nocks.
Bends through the handle. Handle wrapped with braintan buckskin dyed with walnut hulls.
This bow was made as an osage version of a eastern woodland style bow. It turned out to be quite pleasure to shoot. Not the fastest bow, but not slow by any means. It is very, very forgiving to shoot. Draws very smooth and hits right where you look.
It had some drying checks at the ends that fortunately fell in the center of the pin nocks. Tips of pin nocks wrapped with sinew. Recesses were carved in the wood prior to wrapping the sinew to leave the sinew flush with the surface.
Finished with a good thorough burnishing then beeswaxed.
Thanks for looking
















This is after burnishing only, no finish yet.











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Offline Del the cat

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Re: Osage longbow - eastern woodland style - 54# @ 29"
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2015, 06:10:28 pm »
Very cool, nice bit of character.
Any medieval Englishman would know what to do with it too :)
It would be be interesting to have seen a NA and a medieval English peasant talking about bows (ignoring the language problems of course)
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Offline bushboy

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Re: Osage longbow - eastern woodland style - 54# @ 29"
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2015, 06:12:23 pm »
Another beauty! 8)love the character in the upper limb!ancient ivory to boot,cool!
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Offline Aaron H

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Re: Osage longbow - eastern woodland style - 54# @ 29"
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2015, 07:16:17 pm »
Beautiful color on that one Carson.  Very nice
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Offline dantolin

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Re: Osage longbow - eastern woodland style - 54# @ 29"
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2015, 07:23:21 pm »
That's a simple, beautiful bow!! Congratulations!!
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Offline HighEagle

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Re: Osage longbow - eastern woodland style - 54# @ 29"
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2015, 08:02:09 pm »
Got to love that FD pic, Super build Carson. Chuck
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Offline wizardgoat

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Re: Osage longbow - eastern woodland style - 54# @ 29"
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2015, 08:19:26 pm »
Great looking bow Carson. Simple and slick
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Offline loefflerchuck

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Re: Osage longbow - eastern woodland style - 54# @ 29"
« Reply #7 on: July 15, 2015, 08:23:33 pm »
you did justice to that piece of wood
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Offline bubby

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Re: Osage longbow - eastern woodland style - 54# @ 29"
« Reply #8 on: July 15, 2015, 09:33:02 pm »
 Nice one Carson
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Offline rps3

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Re: Osage longbow - eastern woodland style - 54# @ 29"
« Reply #9 on: July 15, 2015, 09:42:42 pm »
Sharp bow, I like the contrast between the character upper and straight bottom limb, plus those stats would fit me to a T.
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Offline okie64

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Re: Osage longbow - eastern woodland style - 54# @ 29"
« Reply #10 on: July 15, 2015, 10:08:30 pm »
Very nice Carson! I really like that style :)
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Offline Pat B

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Re: Osage longbow - eastern woodland style - 54# @ 29"
« Reply #11 on: July 15, 2015, 10:36:39 pm »
Vey cool, Carson.  8)  Will you post a pic of the belly side of one or the hoop-d-dos. I'm working on an osage bow with a similar hoop-d-do and I want to see how you worked them on the belly.
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Offline Badly Bent

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Re: Osage longbow - eastern woodland style - 54# @ 29"
« Reply #12 on: July 15, 2015, 10:37:05 pm »
Simple perfection, my favorite style of bow.
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Re: Osage longbow - eastern woodland style - 54# @ 29"
« Reply #13 on: July 16, 2015, 06:49:26 am »
Nice simple no frills n thrills meatmaker there :)
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Offline adams89

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Re: Osage longbow - eastern woodland style - 54# @ 29"
« Reply #14 on: July 16, 2015, 07:40:19 am »
nice bow, looks like a Cherokeebow for a cornstalk shoot ;)
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