The Oklahoma Selfbow Society is doing a member only bow trade and I got in on it , we have till our banquet in Febuary to complete our bows .
There are only fourteen in our first OSS bow trade and we were only given the specs for the bow we need to build , no names , so we won't know who is building our bow or who the bow that we build will go to . I cut an osage out this evening , now to get it to floor tiller and I have a couple of other staves just in case . The osage stave I wanted to use has the dark orange almost red stripes down the back but due to a couple of cracks on one end on the back I set it aside , it also warped when I split the log and I will have to heat and move the ends about two inches to each to get the string to lay center on the handle .
If this goes well I may have to get in on the next bow trade here .
I'm still working on two other bows , the Kentucky coffee bow and the osage bow for my supervisor at work . I'm having trouble getting the string centered on the coffee tree bow , it's off to one side a little buts till on the handle . The osage had one limb reflexed a little and one deflexed about two inches , the tiller was messing withy head a little so I heated a little reflex in both limbs to even it out . I did shoot it before I reflexed it , talk about hand shock , with the handle not shaped yet it had a little sting to it but it hit where I was looking and grouped good but I would have came in under weight befor getting the tiller right .
Still been hunting just haven't taken a shot yet , does with fawns mostly and the one doe without a fawn only cooperates on work nights , I've taken off too much to call in sick to work a deer up , just need her to give me the chance on a Friday or Saturday evening .
