Sapling Osage (Sapling Sister's Finished)

[ron w]

Holy Cow......now those are some tips,really neat stuff.

[JMartin]

Man, that's just flat out cool!

[Osagetree]

I had a hard time on this one  with the upper mid limb twist. Could have used some more heat bending. Guess I just got in a rush to finish the bows so I can get started on the swap bow.

Here's the second bow at about  a 5" brace. Working up to about 6 1/2"
 

About as good as I could get at 28" without loosing any more weight
 

The second one ended up 66" 40# @ 29".
 
 

Heartwood on bellies
 

I'll call these the sapling sisters. One sitster is a bit twisted and the other sister is a bit horny!  

[walkabout]

lol.look good, those tips are really cool.do you use epoxy to glue your horn tip overlays on or something else? I did a mock up piece awhile back to see if i could use TBIII and found out itll hold pretty well, but ive never seen anyone else use it.

[scottm]

Nice Job!

[bjansen]

Those look awesome.  Great job!

[Pat B]

Good thing you made two different sisters. Having one that was twisted and horny together could be a problem. d;^)
  Walkabout, I have used TBIII on horn nocks and know others who have, all with good results.

[carver]

the spring clamp kinda gets in the way, i think...but i like the sapwood/heartwood contrast on these bows, man!

[walkabout]

its great how any given stave will act diferently than another, even when taken from the same part of the tree.the way they seem to have their own will as to what kind of bow they want to be is one of my favorite things about building.

[Pat B]

IMO, the best way to build a wood bow from a stave is to let the wood tell you what it wants to be rather than trying to persuade the wood to do something it may not want. That is the fun of building wood bows...every one is different, unlike a glass lam bow that is pre-engineered before hand with almost identical results with each new bow of that design.

[Osagetree]

About as much persuassion I give is PLEASE DON'T BREAK YET!    

Pat, sometimes you got to work with what the wood gives ya too! In this case they were from the same log, each stave came out a little different. The 1st one provided  bit more heartwood than the 2nd. You can see this on the belly's,,, the lighter bow has less heartwood. Guess you're right though as I could have worked the other down a bit to match it better???

In the future I will try and keep the heart wood as wide as the bow is gonna be.

Walkabout, I use TBII on the tips.

[walkabout]

haha ive had a few that made it by lots of hoping and moments where i waited for the dreaded snap,it can be kinda like skydiving when you hope your chute opens.the one i got in the works right now falls into that category.