Osage(WAYSIDE) Longbow--info

[Rick Enos]

Just picked up an osage longbow.Has stamped in the limb Wayside.This bow is gorgeous.Has what looks like horn knocks but are actually carved in the wood.The belly side of the limb has a raised crease the intire length of the limb.I'm going to puter on the big site but thought I'd see what info I could pick up here.I'll post a couple of pics.

 
 
 
 
 

[Cody Roiter]

Very cool man.. I am thinking Wade had some info on wayside..

Cody

[Rick Enos]

Thanks Cody.I will try & look it up[.

[JavelinaHink]

Cool Bow Tips , I believe he was from Detroit, have some paper work around here, if I can locate.....Hink...  

[Rick Enos]

Thanks Hink,I can use all the help I can get.There is a link somewhere in the archives says Cody.I'm not sure how to access the archives.

[johnnyrazorhead]

Wayside bows were made by a gentleman named Herman Stroud.He was a Michigan bowyer from somewhere north of Detroit.I can't recall the city at the moment.Cool bow.

[Rick Enos]

Thanks John for the info.

[JavelinaHink]

Rick,

Wayside Bows where made in Wayland, Mi. by Herman Stroud was a well-known old time Michigan bowyer and archery tackle manufacturer that also made a broadhead, Sloped Shoulder Convex Edge 2 blade sharpened on the right cutting edge of each side. Would like to get one of those also.Cool stuff

       Hink...  

[Wade Phillips]

Rick, John, Hink, Cody - All 4 of you Michigan collectors should know more about Wayside and Herman Stroud........ Here is a start....

Herman Stroud owned Wayside Craft Shop located in Wayland, Michigan. Earliest I can date the shop is 1931, but well may have been before that.

In 1931 Stroud killed a nice 5x5 whitetail with one of his manufactured and sold broadheads, the Stroud Barbless Broadhead. I have only ever seen two of them, one in the Roy Case Collection and I'm looking at the other one as I'm banging on this keys...

Stroud's 5x5 whitetail is pictued on page 13 of the January 1932 issue of "The Archery Review".

Cool story to go with the photograph of Stroud, his buck, his bow and broadhead tipped arrow.

You guys should find the antlers from Stroud's 5x5 buck and get them measured, if they aren't already. If it wasn't the Michigan record bow and arrow killed whitetail in 1931, I wish one of you Michigan boys would tell me whose was...

Stroud's was a heck of a bowyer for his time.

Rick - I have the brother to your osage bow. I call it the crowned belly with wedged self horn nocks.

Stroud made a lot bows with those self horn nocks, but I have only seen a couple of others that have the wedge in them.

[Wade Phillips]

Hink - Did you consult the Broadhead Collector's Bible to get the information for your post of July 27, 2009 09:24 AM or was it the article written by that author in the Broadhead Collector's Club Newseltter?

[JavelinaHink]

Nope...I just turned to page s-25 in your book.      
Hink...  

[Rick Enos]

Thanks all of you guys for the info.Hink & John I think I'm going to keeper.John I owe you a bow.If I decide to get rid of it I'll send er your way.Rick....

[Rick Enos]

It looks really good next to my Willis Barns bow.

[Wade Phillips]

Rick - My Willis Barns looks very similar to the Wayside like yours. As a matter of a fact. I removed one from the case and accidentally put the wrong one in its place. Several weeks later I was showing the Barnes to someone and almost thought I had completely lost it when I saw the Wayside brand on the bow. Both are great old bows...

[Rick Enos]

I cant hardly believe that you would do a thing like that.By the way it really impressed me when I heard your dad was a big archery hunter.I dont know why but it just keeps popping into my thoughts.Did he shoot state shoots or was he strictly a bow hunter.

[Wade Phillips]

Rick everyone in our family who has been involved in archery has been strictly a bowhunter. The only odd ball is me who somehow also became a collector. Maybe I'll start calling myself the hunter gatherer...

I believe this Osage Wayside may be a dead ringer for yours. Just had to show both ends, Stroud's design is too cool. Also had to put the "Crooked Yew" Wayside next to it for contrast as it is one of my all time favorite self bows. It is dead mint with the original string and came in the original cloth bow sock... I picked it up several years ago just down the road from you... I'm sure you know where. Let's keep that our little secret... OK...

Note the upper nock on the Osage bow is not drilled for the sting keeper like the "Crooked Yew". Stroud had ideas and talent. Some of his latter bows remind me of a Grumley, although the bowyer was not born in that day who could hold a candle to Nels Grumley. Not sure any have been born since.

 

[Cody Roiter]

Damn nice bows.. Wade great photo my friend..
Time for me to look for info on wayside archery and Mr. Stroud.... Wade would you have any photo's of Mr.Stroud ? you could post for me ?

Thanks

Cody