47" osage

[Perkinator]

I LOVE the color scheme with the reddish bow and dark green handle. What is the handle, anyway?

[simson]

Looks great Chad, nice colors and very good tiller!

[Blackcoyote]

Great lookin lil bendy....tiller is sweet just like your finish work!

[ssgtchad]

Great lookin lil bendy....tiller is sweet just like your finish work!

Thank you sir hopefully I can duplicate the finish on the next one

[ssgtchad]

I LOVE the color scheme with the reddish bow and dark green handle. What is the handle, anyway?

it's bank line used for fishing,  I'll put a proper handle when I get some leather...

[H Rhodes]

Thanks everyone I appreciate the compliment.  I thought I ruined it. After shooting it, I left it in my garage, braced for almost a day and a half. It did have about 3 inched of reflex... it's all gone now, but a least it went back to being straight.

That's a fine looking little shorty.  I bet keeping it braced for that long just sped up the breaking process.  I bet it never takes another bit of set.  Osage is really amazing.  A friend of mine left a little bendy handled osage bow stay with a school group that didn't unbrace his bow for four days; it went back to dead flat again.  That yellow wood is something else. You have a perfect bend on that one. 

[ssgtchad]

Thanks everyone I appreciate the compliment.  I thought I ruined it. After shooting it, I left it in my garage, braced for almost a day and a half. It did have about 3 inched of reflex... it's all gone now, but a least it went back to being straight.

That's a fine looking little shorty.  I bet keeping it braced for that long just sped up the breaking process.  I bet it never takes another bit of set.  Osage is really amazing.  A friend of mine left a little bendy handled osage bow stay with a school group that didn't unbrace his bow for four days; it went back to dead flat again.  That yellow wood is something else. You have a perfect bend on that one.

Thank you sir I'm really happy with it. The plan is to use it as my kayak bow.