bent Osage tips

[DC]

The U bolts are electrical items aren't they

[Red Tailed Hawk]

They can be. Covering aspects of all trades👍

[Ghost308]

it's kinda funny to see what you guys come up with to make the perfect bend in your tips, some of your ideas are pretty clever, but I can't see Primitive Man ever doing anything like any of them. I steam bend my tips then stick them between the slats of a wooden chair and pull, remember KISS

[DC]

We're trying to improve on primitive man. Don't imagine he had a slatted chair either There's a world of difference between functional and functional that gets ohhhhs and ahhhs.

[bradsmith2010]

i like to keep it simple,, but my hat is off the ones that make it simple,,

[Springbuck]

  Ha HA!, Redtail, I have some of the same general design, except they are little kid's bicycle wheels (6", 8" and 12" across) and I boiled oak slats that bend around them all the way to pad the limb being bent.  Yours are better, but I haven't been able to find any pipe like that where I can steal it.  I occasionally see fiberglass or plastic stuff, but I want to be able to use heat.

 I also found a small wire spool and screwed and glued the flat rounds on the ends into a form and drilled holes all along for the clamps to sit.