OSAGE as a Corewood ??

[AdamH]

What do ya guys think, mainly on a Hybrid style L/B, Osage through & through ??? Backed & Bellied w/glass of course ... Thanks

[Spectre]

Osage is totwotoo pretty to hide, IMO

[Pat B]

plus osage is heavy. Another not so heavy wood will help the performance as well as reduce any hand shock.

[JRY309]

Like said it is alittle heavy for an all core wood.I had a bow with osage veneers and bamboo core.I think you may loose alittle performance of the hybrid design and may increase handshock.I like osage especially as it ages,makes a great selfbow.

[cbCrow]

I have a all osage bow,D longbow, and love it. I have no problem with handshock from the bow,but it is slower, I would reccomend actionboo cores and osage veneers, speed and beauty combined.

[gregk]

I too would go with bamboo core and osage as the veneers.

[Spectre]

My Solstice is maple cores and osage veneers. Very quick bow. I love me some maple for core wood.
 
 
 

[heydeerman]

I have an all osage Tree's Custom recurve that's the beans. It's my hunting rig this year. No handshock and shoots as fast as my 57 pounder at 51 pounds.

[ChetterB]

Hey buddy, never shot an all osage bow. Would think you would be better off for performance, to go lighter core material, and use the Osage as veneers. Osage as a core I would guess would be durable, and quite heavy. Good Luck, Jerry.

[BigJim]

Adam- I have built a couple with osage cores. They shot great, but there was a little shock. It was very little, but I could tell. The guy who got them really likes em though.

Bigjim

[Hawkeye]

I have a Thunderstick bow (54" Ramhorn recurve)with osage lams that is a GREAT shooting little bow.  Feels quick, smooth, and tough, somehow.  All my other bows are of bamboo or yew, but I see NO detriment in handshock or performance in this little "girl"!  Don't know about other designs, but it was a winning choice in this case.

[AdamH]

Thanks much fellas, just going "back" through all of the Bows I've had {scary thought!!} and remembered this little Hybrid that was ALL Osage in the limbs and was tryin to remember if it shot as well as some of the others I've had ... Thanks Again ... I remember a thread once, where most have agreed Osage was great, till you backed it with glass ....

[Sixby]

One of the prettiest bows I ever has was osage under glass d an r . the workmanship was awsome , Liberty Bows, but the shock was atrocious and it was really slow. Same bow with boo core or myrtlewood was different animal altogether.
I like osage  veneers. .015 thats thinner than your fingernail and action boo lams and they shoot great.

If you want a good hardwood core maple ar hickory or red elm are the ticket. i use all three of those in my recurves. God Bless you all, Steve

[Hawkeye]

The late Jay Massey wrote in one of his books (The Bowyer's Craft?) that osage was a great selfbow material, a fine wood for laminated/ fiberglass bows, but a "slug" when osage lams were glued up into an all wood laminated bow WITHOUT fiberglass.  I always respected that man and his opinions, but I'm NO bowyer...

[AdamH]

Thanks fellas & I have to agree with ya all ... Take Care, Adam

[Gordon Jabben]

Adam, I won a Horne Archery bow at the Texas Longbow Championship in Fort Worth this year.  I can't compete with the top archers but won the bow at the clout shoot.  Mark Horne made the bow to my specifications and I recieved it the other day.  I wanted Osage limbs which Mark thought would give the bow a small amount of handshock and maybe would slow it down just a fraction.  I know he didn't think this was the best choise for bow limbs but said I could have what I wanted.  I have shot a 21st century bow for the most part and it always was pretty quick but the Mark Horne bow is a lot faster.  I don't notice any handshock but that may just be me.  I have never been bothered much by handshock.  The bow is within a pound of my 21st Century Bow and will send a heavy wood arrow 30 yards futher.  Anyway, I don't think you would give up any preformance with the Osage core.