Osage big recurve, fumed (Nr. 70) FINISHED

[Badly Bent]

I love the way you shape a piece of wood into a bow, that another beauty of a bow Simon. Cool to see the wedge inserts at the tips again as well.

[BowEd]

Sweet looking bow simson.Bet it does shoot fast.Lots of detail work which catches the eye.You do a lot of extras good.Like the low resistence type arrow pass too.The arrow rides on the very least amount after release.Great pics.The fuming I'm not familiar with but see why you like it.

[BowEd]

I seem to remember back in my rendesvousing days shooting muzzleloaders a barrel finish called plum brown.I know this used on almost any wood will give it a natural aged looking petina.Even almost making hickory look like hedge.It was applied and then heat was put on it for it to change  the color of the metal or wood.

[richardzane]

its a beauty!

[Pappy]

  I missed this one, beautiful as usual.
 Pappy

[BowEd]

You know simson your laminated sliver of horn in your tips could be a fix it solution too for splintering from sharp bending recurves in tips.Someone probably has already done it I'm sure.

[Will B]

Great looking bow.  I love the profile and the faded look of that bow. 

[jimmy]

Your bows are just beautiful Simpson.  Always a pleasure and inspiring looking them over.  Just out of curiosity, where do you get your osage living in Bavaria? 

[dantolin]

Beautiful color!!! (and bow!!)
Thanks for sharing.

[Hans H]

now I decide I`l try fuming too, maybe next spring cause you told this process is very stinky I have to go outside.

I like your craftmanship and think i learned a lot from you, but when ever I see some Posts from you or some other guys I come back to the Floor.

Greetings, Hans

[simson]

Had also this one to get completed, sorry for tearing up an old thread. Hope you are still interested. The bow is already shot in and I finally got the f/d pics done. I'm very pleased with the cast of this bow.

Here are the f/d pics:




Well, I thought a glossy finish would look good. It brought out the colors a lot more intensively. Though I'm not sure leave it or not …










Perhaps you remember, I wasn't really pleased with the contrasting colors on this one. (I did a fuming job with different long timbs at limb, tips and handle). I had three additional rings at the handle back so I decided to carve in some finger grooves to bring the more fresh yeller sage to the surface. I think it did good on the former a bit boring handle. If you look close you can see how the ammonia damps went into the wood. At handle the exposure was only one day.

Btw., in the background you can see my arrows growing: pseudosasa japonica










I rubbed some white pigments into the fresh carved fingergrooves, visible in the early wood rings.

[Aaron H]

Oh my,  shiny. 

[bubbles]

Wow. That looks amazing.

[Urufu_Shinjiro]

By Odins missing eye, that is gorgeous!!!

[Patches]

That is a unique and beautiful bow! 

Neal