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kodiakkid
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First succesful Osage selfbow ?
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March 30, 2009, 07:53:00 PM »
Here is what I wound up with from the piece I split off the belly of my stave. It's pulling about 43 @ 27. The grain turned around a knot a little above center of the handle and it's wound up to be almost center shot. 1" wide tapering to 3/8" tips. I had to heat it to bring one limb in line and to take a bit of propeller twist out of the other limb. I posted a thread asking for help with bending but decided to go ahead and try it. Seems to have worked pretty well. Please feel free to critique my work. Thanks to all for the responses to my post and questions. I could not have done it without ya'll. Paul<><
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John Scifres
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Re: First succesful Osage selfbow ?
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March 30, 2009, 11:23:00 PM »
Nice job. That is great tiller on a snaky piece like that.
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Pat B
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Re: First succesful Osage selfbow ?
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March 31, 2009, 12:13:00 AM »
EXCELLENT! See, I told ya so!!! You did a great job on a difficult stave...and a throw away stave at that.
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Dean Marlow
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Re: First succesful Osage selfbow ?
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March 31, 2009, 07:27:00 AM »
Great job on a difficult piece of osage. Tiller looks right on to me. Thanks for sharing. Dean
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George Tsoukalas
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March 31, 2009, 09:23:00 AM »
That is just a great tiller! Well done. Jawge
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razorback
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Re: First succesful Osage selfbow ?
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March 31, 2009, 09:27:00 AM »
Nice work on that stave. I knew that little snake in there was going to look good. Now get the other half of the stave turned into another bow.
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broketooth
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March 31, 2009, 10:06:00 AM »
wow paul you work fast i think it looks great
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ChristopherO
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March 31, 2009, 11:19:00 AM »
That feels good, doesn't it? It ought to as that is a fine bow you've made there.
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kodiakkid
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March 31, 2009, 07:19:00 PM »
Thanks guys. I really appreciate all the nice compliments and all the help I've had from ya'll. I'm hooked on this bow building stuff for sure. Paul<><
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tim roberts
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March 31, 2009, 10:34:00 PM »
That is sweet Paul! Way to go!!!
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Tim
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I guess if we run into the bear that is making these tracks, we oughta just get off the trail.......He seems to like it!
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shamus
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April 01, 2009, 07:08:00 AM »
good job!
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