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Title: Osage veneers
Post by: Maclean on January 24, 2025, 03:51:27 PM

For those of you that have ordered a new bow with Osage veneers, how long did it take for the Osage to darken, roughly?

Title: Re: Osage veneers
Post by: Walt Francis on January 24, 2025, 04:41:26 PM

Depends on how much light/UV the veneers receives and your definition of darkening.

Put the bow in a window (unstrung) and it will darken faster. 

Title: Re: Osage veneers
Post by: ChristopherO on January 25, 2025, 03:46:11 PM

Quote from: Maclean on January 24, 2025, 03:51:27 PM

For those of you that have ordered a new bow with Osage veneers, how long did it take for the Osage to darken, roughly?

Not very long.  If you are concerned that the bright yellow you see now will linger and be a beacon in the woods, by next Fall it will not be.  Cut Osage oxidizes pretty quick.  My main bow is one I built out of Osage veneers that I cut and sanded to thickness.  It faded sufficiently by the time  I took it hunting a month later.  Now it is very pretty 14 years later.