Selfbow explosion!

[Osagetree]

Gotcha!
   
 

How long would you rek'n these floor tillered staves will remain workable if I don't get to finishing them?

Stats: osage and hickory, sealed, split and cured 1 season then shaped in the past few months

 

[2treks]

Not long! send em to me. (You know somebody was gonna say it)
   Dunk them in some sealer and they will keep a long time. A friend of mine has a BIG dip tube filled with poly. works good and scrapes off easy. Nice looking stack-o-staves ya got there.
Chuck

[Stiks-n-Strings]

Not long if I had them, there would be an explosion I'm sure

[Dano]

Bout time you got after em Joe.   :rolleyes:    

[Shaun]

Gary Davis just paints em with shellac and they keep a long time. Cheap and easy to scrape away. Nice bunch of sticks OT.

[4runr]

Looks like I need to make a road trip to Southpoint!!

[George Tsoukalas]

Well, I made a nice bow from a 20+ year old red oak board I inherited from my father. Osage is used for fence posts. You could dig one up and it would still make a great bow. Hickory is out of the weather so it will be fine too. Jawge

[sulphur]

lucky dog!  i would like to have that problem.

[bigcountry]

Lots of work and sweat in that pile.

[Pat B]

Joe, I'll help you out with whatever Chuck don't want. You've already done the hard part. Nice mess of sticks. Should get you to next spring or at least close.
  I wasn't surprised with your explosion pic. My Shere Khan looked about that after a late night bow drawing session.

[2treks]

Hey Shaun, It is Gary I am talking about. He has a big pvc dip tube and puts in Poly or Shellac. can't remember which. He does it mostly to protect the wood during steaming but it also acts as a nice sealer for long term storage. That being said Joe, I was rooting around my top shelf this past summer and I dug out an osage self bow stave that I tossed up there about 5yrs ago and it looks fine.I am not sure why it was buried but now I will have to make a bow from it I suppose.
Chuck
p.s. I have been to Gary's shop when he had a pile of shavings about to the top of his bandsaw table,2'-3' out from the wall and a good 8'long. I think he put a picture of that in a magazine ad.That dude can make some chips.

[4runr]

Chuck, I hope you are going to finish up a certain little girl's bow before you go to finishing that selfbow  

[2treks]

See how far behind I am Kenny? 5yrs! Just kidding, I will leave that up to Ron and John.
   It is at final sanding right now Kenny. I just came into send you an update. So, here you go, an update. A few days or a week and she will be on the way south. Sound good?
Chuck

[4runr]

PERRRRfect!!!

[Osagetree]

Shaun, I think I met Gary Davis here in Ohio at an event. Looked as though he had an endless supply of osage staves ready for tillering? I think that is where I met you too. I was with my wife if you can recall?

Ken, remember where you took that buck down here? Well, I missed one there this season. A nice 10 pointer! I hate to talk about that!

What do you guys think if'n I smear a little boiled linseed oil on them unitl finished. That should hold for awhile and maybe I won't have to scrape the backs.

I only let my piles get about that big before burning them in my little fire pit. If I leave it laying around to long, my dogs drag it all over the yard. I guess they think since I find some use for it, it must be good. So they string it out trying to figure out what to do with it. Probably thinking something like this, "That one didn't do anything,,, lets try another one!"

[Okie 1]

That's funny 'bout the dogs... I thought my dog was weird or something. She chews on scrap pieces of 'Sage while I'm in the shop.
I had a bow that I had started about 14 years ago and just found it in the attic a couple years back and finished it out and she was just fine. It was definitely seasoned.