64" Tip to tip osage, 51#@27"
It wasn't like I was planning to make this bow, but while up at the barn looking for a stave of osage for Doug to make a bow from, this very snakey split osage log caught my eye. Looking out for Doug's best interest and the fact he was to make his first bow, I thought it best that I take on this challenge and allow him a somewhat less curvey piece to seduce him!
I found a nice piece with nice lines after recovering from my discovery...but I'll let him tell you that story.
I split off the belly split from the log and that's what this bow was made from. The top section of the log was chased to a grain, a line was drawn following the linear grain length wise down the center of the log, and then it was cut in to with a bandsaw for Pappy and BigA to make bows from. This was by far the most snakey piece of osage I have ever attempted a bow from. It was challenging to tiller with the handle shifting out of line two different directions and a big dip right at the lower limb fades.
The grip is tanned elk hide and tanned deer hide. The deer hide was given to me by Leapingbare and he added metal during the soaking of the hide to give it the grey color. The tips are bubinga and buffalo horn, the beads are cocobollo, and the skin is timber rattler. The bow was sealed with truoil, lightly sanded and final coats were polyurethane clear satin. She shoots very nice and is center shot due to the handle rotation. I hope you like it!
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