Looooong Osage Bow "Myths"..(pics added pg 3)

[blackhawk]

I've always wanted to make  a really long osage bow to disprove the myths that it will be a handshock and jarring slow dog of a bow...I found a prefect candidate of a stave last night(although its only a year old),and have a perfect design in mind...ill make it 76" ntn,and a standard 50@28"and when im done its gonna be a glorious shooter 

Anyone care to disagree it cant be done? What say you?

[artcher1]

You designing it to shoot light or heavy arrows? 

[Buckeye Guy]

Piece of cake !

[blackhawk]

I can do either Art  

[blackhawk]

Yep Guy...your right..easy peasy..its all about design n tiller

[Badger]

  Chris, about 12 years ago I built a 72" 50# elb style bow. About 1" wide. It was a great shooter but had a horrible painful sharp handshock, so bad that I would drop the bow after the shot and grab my hand in pain. I had to shoot like 800 grain arrows to tame it down. It wasn't high in mass either at around 16.5 oz. Several years later I decided to make another one but tiller it slightly different, a little more elyptical and it smoothed right out.

[blackhawk]

Exactly Steve....tiller is important...needs to be ellipictal...mine won't be a elb and will have a stiff handle,and of course longer than normal giving me the same length working limbs as a "normal" length bow for those specs....and of course my signature tips(narrower than yours) will keep my mass low out in the ends....I don't just think I can do it..I KNOW I CAN!!! 

[PatM]

If it's only a year old how much longer are you going to let it grow? I would prefer if you found a fully grown stave rather than just a potential candidate.

[Buckeye Guy]

Show us what you are starting with !
So we can see what options you have .
No whip tiller allowed !

You designing it to shoot light or heavy arrows? 

Send him the arrows you want him to use and make a challenge out of this 
Hope you have some light arrows on hand !
Maybe some of them old cedar shafts that are 180 grains but 5o lbs spine !
Have fun cause I am !
Guy

[artcher1]

Let's shoot (pun intended) for light Chris.

You know you'll have to send it to a few of us for verification don't you?

[blackhawk]

Lol pat 

Guy n Art...ilk take it to the Tennessee classic and you can shoot it all you want...be there or be square 

I'll snap some pics after I get home today n put em up for him yins guys

[Badger]

    Tim Bakers famous mojam bow was a 76" pecan bow, I have shot the twin to it many times and it shoots as smooth as silk. No reason you could not do it with osage.

[adb]

Hell, yah... no problem. I've made narrow backed ipe bows of that dimension with no isues, and ipe is heavier than osage.

[RidgeRunner]

You going to have to keep the mass off the outer limbs.

I got a 6' Osage bow at home.  It is made much as you discribed the one you plan to make. I can bring it to the Classic and you can help me work the hand shock out of it.

David

[blackhawk]

Steve...don't know if ya saw this one..its yew and is as you say Tims were..smooooth as silk all I need to do is scale the width down and a hair more elliptical in tiller and it should be no different

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=36860.0

Alright ridge...