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Offline PEARL DRUMS

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Re: curly Osage
« Reply #15 on: October 19, 2015, 09:24:43 am »
Looking good so far trucker.
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Re: curly Osage
« Reply #16 on: October 19, 2015, 09:31:15 am »
Cool Josh.Can't witness these oddities shooting glass........lol.
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Re: curly Osage
« Reply #17 on: October 19, 2015, 09:46:01 am »
Thanks fellas!
Ed!!!   Glad to see ya back!
Clint, it does wiggle back and forth, but no where near as extreme as your stuff.  This stuff is way more subtle.  Hopefully that will make the difference.
For those of you wondering what we're talking about in regards to figure and grain. The anomaly that produces the tiger stripe chatoyancy in the wood is known as curl.  You see a lot of curl in maple and its fairly common in walnut.  It is however very uncommon to find in Osage.  I have a piece that Clint gave me that is pretty extreme curl and as such, absolutely beautiful.  If you look at the edge of the wood in the picture, you will see a small sliver that zig zags back and forth.  This is the grain we are talking about that produces the effect.  Josh
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Re: curly Osage
« Reply #18 on: October 19, 2015, 09:49:04 am »
Thanks....I see there are a few new catagories on here now.....horn bow,flight bow etc.Glad to see it.
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Re: curly Osage
« Reply #19 on: October 19, 2015, 11:08:17 am »
Quote from: Drewster on October 18, 2015, 07:04:57 pm
Oh sweet!   Curly but not girly.  That's going to be a fine one.  Keep us posted.

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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: curly Osage
« Reply #20 on: October 19, 2015, 11:13:11 am »
The grain squiggle was pretty extreme in the bow I tried to make from it.  It looks like yours will be better bow wood. 

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Offline Josh B

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Re: curly Osage
« Reply #21 on: October 19, 2015, 05:15:44 pm »
Well...I'm hoping it turns out better anyway.  We will see. Josh
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Re: curly Osage
« Reply #22 on: February 23, 2016, 09:32:53 am »
Getting closer on this one.  It's pulling 24#@24" and has taken very little set.  My daughter has been shooting it in and gave me the go ahead to finish it up.  It's a pretty snappy little shooter even with the curly grain.  Hopefully I'll get it finished up the next time I get home.  Here she is putting it through the paces.  The tiller needs just a smidgen of fine tuning, but it's pretty close. Thanks for looking.  Josh
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: curly Osage
« Reply #23 on: February 23, 2016, 10:15:16 am »
Looking good Josh.  Were you able to talk her out of skinning it?
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Offline Josh B

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Re: curly Osage
« Reply #24 on: February 23, 2016, 10:50:49 am »
Thanks Clint!  Nope...she won't budge on the skins.  I even tried talking her into skinning the bow she's making instead of this one...no dice there either.  She wants her bow snaky like a WillH bow and that's that!  Lol!  Josh
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Offline Will B

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Re: curly Osage
« Reply #25 on: February 26, 2016, 01:45:58 pm »
Great looking bow and I really enjoyed the story.  She's a lucky girl.
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Offline Aaron H

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Re: curly Osage
« Reply #26 on: February 26, 2016, 02:31:58 pm »
Can't wait to see it all finished up Josh
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Offline Buckeye Guy

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Re: curly Osage
« Reply #27 on: February 26, 2016, 06:56:28 pm »
Looking good !
wish I had some to try
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Re: curly Osage
« Reply #28 on: February 26, 2016, 08:50:50 pm »
 Doc,
         That tiller looks upper limb slightly positive and looks good from my screen...Your daughter has good archery form there also...
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Re: curly Osage
« Reply #29 on: February 26, 2016, 11:59:16 pm »
That girls got a good daddy. Very cool!
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