Hello guys, and first of all thank you all for your help. Today i could not stay away from the Osage stave, so i had to work on it to see what i can get from it..i have to say, she is quite stuborn
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))...i will put some pictures so that you can see what i did today. UNfortunatly, the stave was not wide enugh at the bottom, so that i can use those thick rings there..i'v folowed that 1mm ring that i was talking aboute yestarday, and i have manage to have it clean..the entire work, debarking, reduce the stave to bow dimension, folowing the ring, took like 5 hours or so..so here are the pictures.
![](http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x212/Akila_07/Osage%20Bow/IMG_3708_zpsx4qatdnh.jpg)
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A new surprise was to descover this two long kracks on the back..they war very deep, and somehow realy stupid positioned. With a little bit of luck, i have managed to cut them out, and i have like 4cm width on that limb.a little bit more then 1,5'' wide.
![](http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x212/Akila_07/Osage%20Bow/IMG_3717_zpsax419umw.jpg)
The stave is quite reflexed as you can see in the picture.
![](http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x212/Akila_07/Osage%20Bow/IMG_3718_zpshce0tuxg.jpg)
A new surprise, was this big node. I was not expecting to be so big.
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Here are some pin knots...they look like small staines and this is how they look on the belly side..
![](http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x212/Akila_07/Osage%20Bow/IMG_3720_zps2ysqurrh.jpg)
And this one..a little bit snakey..with a little twist at one end..
![](http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x212/Akila_07/Osage%20Bow/IMG_3722_zpshr18jdfq.jpg)
Puuuhhh, so quite alot of work on this one, and i have no ideea if in the end a bow will comme out of it. We will see
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. I dont know, what should i do with that big knot there if i decide to back it with rawhide..should i make it flatt, or somehow trying to glue the rawhide on top of that stuff?