Good Days Haul of Osage

[Krasus]

Glass backed (clear) reflex deflex longbow. ( my design)    

Put some Osage under the clear so it just makes the bow pop!

[mwosborn]

Roy - it is on the to do list.  I haven't cut any for a couple of years, but I do have several seasoned staves to keep me going for a while.

[canopyboy]

Congrats Roybert!

[ron w]

Love that yellar wood........  

[LittleBen]

Looking good. Wish I actually had some growing around here. Just lots of mulberry ....

Care to show us how you mill it? You'd need quite the rig to get a big log like that onto the table of a vertical bandsaw.

I've been thinking of building a long sled with indeed and outfeed table for my bandsaw to mill some logs ...

[Roy from Pa]

Ben, those big logs are 36 inches long. That's because of how they grew and what I was allowed to take. I got as many 36 inch pieces as I could. Some will be for lams and others will be for risers. I did get one beaut that was 64 inches long.

The 36 inch ones will be split with a wedge till I get them down closer to an extra large Osage stave size. Then I put a 3/4" X 3 tpi blade on my bandsaw and square them up and then I cut billet boards from there on. I try to get as many 1/4 sawn pieces as I can, then as many rift sawn as I can. Then if possible I'll cut some riser blocks  out of it. Osage is like gold and I don't want to waste any of it. But for the first year they will just be split with the wedge and left to dry.

[LittleBen]

Thanks Roy.

I guess I assumed you were cutting the logs on the bandsaw before splitting. I'll have to try that method, split first, then saw.