Introduction and question.

[osage outlaw]

That's a keeper!

[Danzn Bar]

Rob,
Wow    those are some nice osage trees........
I'm in Louisville, Clint (Osage Outlaw) and a few other PA guys and I get together a few times a year at the ITBA 3D shoot in Scottsburg, IN.... sure would like to see you make a few shoots. First one is the first Saturday in January. Hope to see you there.....Check out ITBA website.
DBar

[Rob W.]

I will try to make it. Sounds like fun.

I usually go to the KY tradfest every year as well.

[osage outlaw]

We also go to the Moontree gathering in Richmond KY every March. That's always a good time. 

[George Tsoukalas]

Beautiful staves! I hope you get lots of bows from them. Jawge

[crooketarrow]

  Good deal now as soon as I split my staves. I add a coulpe inchs of deflex. Put on saw horses and ratch strap the middle of the stave to the flood. O'sage I add 2 to 3 inchs. I've a beleiver the older osage the better the bow can be if you do your part.

  With a stave seasoned a few years old with 2,3 inchs of deflex. My osage bows finished will hold anywhere from a inch deflex to straight. But you never know wood is wood.


   I never build a osage thats not well seasoned 5 to 20 years. Not that you can't fourm it down to bow size and finish it off in a hot box.

   You can debark but if you remove the sap wood you have to seal the ends back really well. I just leave mine ratched down for couple years. Then you can just stand it up and forget about it for a few years.

  I leave the bark and sap wood and just let your staves season with time.

  SLOW ALWAYS BETTER WITH SEASONING AND TILLERING.