« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2 3

Author Topic: Pure & simple osage bow  (Read 6107 times)

0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic.

Offline Shaun

  • Member
  • Posts: 257
Pure & simple osage bow
« on: October 26, 2012, 08:44:28 pm »








This bow is 62" NTN 51# @ 27" full compass tiller ELB style 1" wide X 7/8" thick at the handle. There is no extra adornment of any kind. Scraper finish (no sandpaper), no wax or Truoil, no overlays or handle - just a small mark at the arrow pass. It is a study in minimalist bow design/building. It shoots beautifully with smooth draw, stable balance and good speed. I will be taking this stick afield next week.

Logged

Offline gstoneberg

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,889
Re: Pure & simple osage bow
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2012, 08:45:48 pm »
Very nice!  I like that a lot.

George
Logged
St Paul, TX

Offline Dictionary

  • Member
  • Posts: 717
Re: Pure & simple osage bow
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2012, 08:57:59 pm »
Just the way i like em  ;)
Logged
"I started developing an eye for those smooth curves as a young man.  Now that my hair is greying and my middle spreading I make bows instead."

-JW_Halverson

Offline Fred Arnold

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,566
  • From up on Munson Creek
Re: Pure & simple osage bow
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2012, 09:28:23 pm »
Nice bow. I like your style.
Logged
I found many years ago that it is much easier and more rewarding working with those that don't know anything than those that know it all.

Offline Carson (CMB)

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,319
Re: Pure & simple osage bow
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2012, 09:29:40 pm »
I like that bend!!!  Also liked the Osage fruit
Logged
"The bow is the old first lyre,
the mono chord, the initial rune of fine art
The humanities grew out from archery as a flower from a seed
No sooner did the soft, sweet note of the bow-string charm the ear of genius than music was born, and from music came poetry and painting and..." Maurice Thompso

Offline HoBow

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,439
  • The choices we make dictate the lives we lead.
Re: Pure & simple osage bow
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2012, 09:30:17 pm »
That's a beauty!  Clean an simple.
Logged
Jeff Utley- Atlanta GA

Offline Trapper Rob

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,719
Re: Pure & simple osage bow
« Reply #6 on: October 26, 2012, 09:40:01 pm »
Nice bow.
Rob
Logged

Offline Zion

  • Member
  • Posts: 783
  • The blacksmith's mare walks barefoot
Re: Pure & simple osage bow
« Reply #7 on: October 26, 2012, 10:54:29 pm »
Very nice bow! It's so great to finish a bow in this way and just shoot the heck outa it!
Logged
The secret of life is learning to make your own luck.

Offline lostarrow

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,348
Re: Pure & simple osage bow
« Reply #8 on: October 26, 2012, 11:01:33 pm »
I think that is the straightest , cleanest piece of osage I've ever seen. Very nice bow!
Logged

Offline NTProf

  • Member
  • Posts: 250
Re: Pure & simple osage bow
« Reply #9 on: October 26, 2012, 11:14:42 pm »
I will take a bow like that all day long over anything else!
Logged

Offline Badly Bent

  • Member
  • Posts: 3,750
Re: Pure & simple osage bow
« Reply #10 on: October 26, 2012, 11:28:22 pm »
Nice practical bow Shaun I like it's simplicity, great bend too.
Greg
Logged
I ain't broke but I'm badly bent.

Offline Pat B

  • Administrator
  • Member
  • Posts: 37,604
Re: Pure & simple osage bow
« Reply #11 on: October 26, 2012, 11:30:47 pm »
Excellent bow Shaun. Pure and simple!!!  8)
Logged
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!    Pat Brennan  Brevard, NC

Offline rps3

  • Member
  • Posts: 1,514
Re: Pure & simple osage bow
« Reply #12 on: October 26, 2012, 11:31:25 pm »
Oh, that is just perfect, but dont you need something to keep moisture out?
Logged

Offline soy

  • Member
  • Posts: 2,897
  • pm106221
Re: Pure & simple osage bow
« Reply #13 on: October 26, 2012, 11:36:02 pm »
You're tillering never ceases to amaze me... what a beauty ;)
Logged
Is this bow making a sickness? or the cure...

Offline Bryce

  • Global Moderator
  • Member
  • Posts: 3,125
  • Pacific Ghost Longbows
Re: Pure & simple osage bow
« Reply #14 on: October 26, 2012, 11:42:54 pm »
The beauty in simplicity.
Very beautiful
Logged
Clatskanie, Oregon
Pages: [1] 2 3
« previous next »