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Title: First osage finish pics
Post by: tetaxidermy on January 13, 2010, 06:08:58 pm

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Still a little stiff on the upper limb but going to leave it alone, that knot makes it tricky. Draws 45lbs at 28" 66 ntn, no noise or hand shock. Put a squirrel fur handle and fox fur silencers. I put a little walnut stain on to bring out the grain and several coats of clear, then knocked the shine off with 0000 steel wool. All in all pretty happy with it. thanks for looking.

Title: Re: First osage finish pics
Post by: rileyconcrete on January 13, 2010, 06:14:53 pm

Good job.  Osage is pretty cool wood. Looks nice.

Tell

Title: Re: First osage finish pics
Post by: medicinewheel on January 13, 2010, 06:29:17 pm

Nice bow!

Title: Re: First osage finish pics
Post by: Aries on January 13, 2010, 06:41:01 pm

hey man thats looks like the wood i learned on.. I know you learn bout a 100x more from a piece of wood like that than a perfectly clean piece. That is a mean lookin thing!! Good Job  Ty..               Ps  if you have some hand shock goin on you could probably safely remove just a bit more wood around that tip knot without damaging the integrity.    Or Just move onto the next one  ;D ;D

Title: Re: First osage finish pics
Post by: cowboy on January 13, 2010, 08:45:56 pm

Very nice for your first Bodark. And what a piece of character wood ta boot! Good job man!!

Title: Re: First osage finish pics
Post by: tetaxidermy on January 13, 2010, 08:55:03 pm

I learned a lot, can't wait to work some more osage. At the moment I am working on a piece of red oak, never have managed to get oak to work but with what I learned on this piece and reading on this forum I have a red oak Holmegaard almost done. thanks for all the comments. Eric

Title: Re: First osage finish pics
Post by: Pappy on January 14, 2010, 06:59:37 am

Nice job,looks like a shooter to me. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: First osage finish pics
Post by: nathan elliot on January 14, 2010, 02:16:42 pm

Very nice looking bow, full of character. Bet you already thinking about your next bow ;)

Title: Re: First osage finish pics
Post by: tetaxidermy on January 14, 2010, 04:43:53 pm

Sure am thinking osage with recurve.

Title: Re: First osage finish pics
Post by: Kent D. on January 14, 2010, 04:48:09 pm

Well done.  Ive got a knotted mess of an osage stave going right now.  Hope it comes out.

Title: Re: First osage finish pics
Post by: tetaxidermy on January 14, 2010, 08:36:55 pm

By the way I would like to give a big thanks to longbowhntr for trading with me and making this bow possible, hell of a decent guy.

Title: Re: First osage finish pics
Post by: Little John on January 14, 2010, 08:52:04 pm

Cool looking bow. How about some full draw braced and unbraced pics straight from the side with no cant to the bow, much easier to se the bend of the bow. Lots of character and knots going on there, hope mine turns out as nice.   Kenneth 

Title: Re: First osage finish pics
Post by: tetaxidermy on January 14, 2010, 10:44:18 pm

I'll have to take some more pics, unbraced, thought  i had one but I don't.

Title: Re: First osage finish pics
Post by: Postman on January 14, 2010, 11:08:14 pm

good job with that tricky stave!

Title: Re: First osage finish pics
Post by: OldBow on January 14, 2010, 11:41:27 pm

Got your admirable weapon bookmarked for January Self Bow of the Month! Congrats!

Title: Re: First osage finish pics
Post by: George Tsoukalas on January 15, 2010, 12:25:38 am

Very nice tiller on a character stave. Jawge

Title: Re: First osage finish pics
Post by: tetaxidermy on January 16, 2010, 09:08:51 am

Thanks for all the comments, it's the last weekend of archery season my daughter and I are going to try to break the bow in right.

Title: Re: First osage finish pics
Post by: PeteC on January 16, 2010, 09:55:05 am

Good job on a tough piece of wood.(especially for your first bois d'arc attempt).You handled the knots well. God Bless