Boo Osage

[Marc St Louis]

Bamboo and Osage are a good combo but I have had better results with a Maple backing, performance wise that is.

[bownarra]

Smooth-on EA40 is pretty hard to beat.
Titebond 3 is my go to when I can't be bothered mixing epoxy and my workshop is too cold for EA40.
Resorcinol is another excellent glue but hard to find now. Somebody new obviously bought the rights to the recipe a few years ago.

[PatM]

Resorcinol is available under the name   "Cascophen"   from Aircraft Spruce.   For those in North America at least.

[PaulN/KS]

Smooth-on EA40 is pretty hard to beat.
Titebond 3 is my go to when I can't be bothered mixing epoxy and my workshop is too cold for EA40.
Resorcinol is another excellent glue but hard to find now. Somebody new obviously bought the rights to the recipe a few years ago.

I have heard of others using Titebond 3.
It seems almost too simple/easy to work..? 

[PatM]

Titebond creeps in glued on riser fades.   Many people would rather use a glue that works for every part.

[PaulN/KS]

Titebond creeps in glued on riser fades.   Many people would rather use a glue that works for every part.

See, I knew there had to be a catch... 

[Eric Krewson]

The last bamboo backed osage bow I toasted was glued up with urac, heat doesn't affect urac. I may have done the same with unibond  but I am not sure. I would be cautious about toasting a glue up with other glues although a bow making friend uses TB3 on all his tri lams and says heat won't make it turn loose.

[PaulN/KS]

The last bamboo backed osage bow I toasted was glued up with urac, heat doesn't affect urac. I may have done the same with unibond  but I am not sure. I would be cautious about toasting a glue up with other glues although a bow making friend uses TB3 on all his tri lams and says heat won't make it turn loose.

Good to know. Thanks Eric. 

[JW_Halverson]

Bamboo and Osage are a good combo but I have had better results with a Maple backing, performance wise that is.

From a purely aesthetic point of view this would give the same impression of sapwood/heartwood, like osage naturally has, and yew for that matter, too.  She'd look mighty nice in the hand, I gotta say.

[Selfbowman]

Never done earthier. But yew takes comprehension well and is lighter so for speed I would try boo and yew if you have it. Also the Osage will make a fine bow. Arvin

[willie]

Bamboo and Osage are a good combo but I have had better results with a Maple backing, performance wise that is.

Marc, are you willing to take a guess at why maple works better for you? was the maple backing sawn on both sides or was the backing taken from just under the bark?

Thanks