Osage fumed flipped flattie (No.89) Pic heavy!

[Selfbowman]

Great tiller on a challenging piece of Osage . I like it . Arvin

[Redhand]

Nice stick Simon it looks like a fast smooth shooter. I defenitly need to get a bow from you. Awesome work my friend.

[Del the cat]

Lovely unstrung shape on that.Great bow. Cool kitty too
Del

[Aaron H]

Great work Simon, it is a beautiful bow

[simson]

That's a beauty Simon....where do you get your osage? is it local?
DBar

Get mine from the States and more from Hungary

The cat is my neighbour's, but he stays more time in my yard, garden and on my couch hahaha

I'm wondering nobody asked about the osage soup ...

Thank you all for the compliments!

[Badly Bent]

You're always coming up with new ideas Simon, whats the osage soup recipe?
Nice bow and that some long draw length for a 52" stick, well done as always.

[Stringman]

Yep I'm curious about the soup as well.

Great job on the bow!

[simson]

You're always coming up with new ideas Simon, whats the osage soup recipe?
Nice bow and that some long draw length for a 52" stick, well done as always.

Yep I'm curious about the soup as well.

Great job on the bow!

Haha, Greg! What are you doing brother? haven't seen a bow from you for a long time, or did I miss?

Well, the recipe for osage soup (simple as simple can):

Solve all the fine shavings and rasping from working on osage. Next time when you steam recurves into a bow, through them into the cooking water, let them in several steaming sessions. Fill the liquid in a bottle (without the shavings) at two or three spoonful alcohol (prevent fungus infect) and you are ready.
For applying use a brush, do it two or three times (let dry inbetween) and you get old aged osage in minutes!
Cool side effect (that's why I did): in this solution are all the tan acids that reacts with the fuming. So I get a deeper color in a shorter time.

[gfugal]

I hope you don't mind but I used this bow for an example in a bow calculator. I posted it in a thread here: http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,59964.0.html. Love the bow man!

[loon]

Primitive, simple, excellent craftsmanship and very beautiful... you really make Osage actually seem like a special bow wood

[---GUTSHOT--->]

Once again, very nice bow Simon. I do like the soup recipe. I've gummed several bows now and will have to try the soup. My question to you when your steaming your bows with the shavings in your water is it somewhat fumming the bow your working on? Or staining the wood with the acids in the steam?  Thanks Paul

[Parnell]

The unbraced profile is remarkable.  Always fascinating, Simon.

[simson]

I hope you don't mind but I used this bow for an example in a bow calculator. I posted it in a thread here: http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,59964.0.html. Love the bow man!

No problem at all, Greg!
I will answer at the other thread.

Once again, very nice bow Simon. I do like the soup recipe. I've gummed several bows now and will have to try the soup. My question to you when your steaming your bows with the shavings in your water is it somewhat fumming the bow your working on? Or staining the wood with the acids in the steam?  Thanks Paul

Paul, sorry it seems I was not exact enough. It doeasen't matter when you cook the shavings (weather you do while steaming a bow or not - it doesn't effect the stave while steaming).
The only thing is to cook long enough to get a thick (I mean thicker as water, no pudding), so that most of the water dampens away. I just saved my soup from several steamings.

So, don't forget the alcohol and apply with a brush.
The osage darkenens immideately and the other thing when you want to fume the stick - there are more tanning acids embedded for reaction with the ammonia.

[wizardgoat]

Very nice, those profiles are beautiful

[Dvshunter]

Absolutely stunning. Well done!