Lets see some bocote/osage combbows.

[Izzy]

Thinking these woods will be for my next bow.Lets see what ya got. Thanks

[Dave2old]

Me too. But bocote is merely decortive, not structural, so we're either building osage selbows with bocote veneer, or backing the osage with something else and bocote atop that. I build mostly wood lam bows and after many tries with hickory backed osage, and too many failures, I've reverted to boo for backing. But in order to have a flat surface for the bocote veneer, I guess I'll have to return to hickory -- either that, or a reversed-grain osage lam backing. In either event, this one will ultimately be backed with glass to protect the bocote and assure this considerable investment in materials and labor doesn't blow up on me. What's your plan?

[Brandon Stahl]

[Izzy]

My plan? Buying one.Ive only just begun to attempt building with an oak board bow.Maybe next fall, when my little one is in day care Ill have time to try my hand at making one, but in the meantime that bow right there is what Im talking about. Very nice Brandon.True work of art.Thats my favorite wood combo.Be sure to post when you build one Dave.

[ledo]

yeah, man: beautiful bow. a complete mystery to me how woods can come together into something like that.

[Shifting Shadow]

Brandon, that's the most beautiful combination of osage and bacote I've seen!

[joe skipp]

Kempf Kwik Styk riser of Bocote/Osage

 

[W.Tim]

[Guru]

Joe, KS riser is Coco/Osage bud......Did you put your turkey tail in the freezer for me?