A new bow for the Classic, hopefully

[toomanyknots]

Staves like these are like those one kinda girls... Like,...    ...They're like that one chick that you just can never help but give in to and you love it, but at the same time you hate em as much as you love em!     Or that's how it is with me when I work a stave with a big kink or knot or other problem like that. Cool build along osage outlaw.

[Del the cat]

That is soooo good, you've just gotta make up some tall talefor the campfire about how your great grand pappy dodged that bullet in a gunfight and the tree became family folklaw until one day you saw it being felled etc.
Heck even I believe it already
Del

[IDreamofOsage]

Looks great already, can't wait to see it finished.

[Pat B]

Interesting bow, Clint. Looking forward to seeing it is person at the Classic. 

[osage outlaw]

Thanks guys 

I worked a little more on the areas suggested.  I don't want to go to far at the knot.  When I split this stave out, it didn't split even on each side of it.  So one side is wide and less thick, and the other side is narrow and thicker.  So far it seems about even.  It doesn't twist when I draw it.  I think I'm going to leave it alone.



Here is a better shot of the woop de doo fade.  I scraped some just past it.



Here is the crack that I filled with superglue outlined in pencil.  It seems to go into the bow at a 45 degree angle. 



I exercised the bow and checked the tiller one more time. 



 I heated one limb and moved it just a little to line the string up on the handle.  I'll leave it until Tuesday, my next day off work.

[Bevan R.]

I think you have done one heck of a job bringing that bow to life. Well done Sir!!