What a beautfiul site, my basement floor covered in golden shavings
. My latest project is my first osage bow, and definitely not my last. The osage was a gift from Big Dog (thanks again Cary, I'll find a way to repay you) in the form of two billets. What with my bandsaw down for the count for the last little bit, they lay to the side and I never got a chance to splice them together and get cracking. To my delight however, I discovered that my neighbors have a bandsaw. And so, with a little sweet talking and a lot more practice cuts, orange dust was in the air - and in more ways than one. The cuts were not perfect, probably not even good, but the billets fit together, and that was all I was asking for. The billets were only about 3/4 of inch thick at the handle area, so I had to glue on a handle. I put in some purpleheart, mahogany and some kind of red veneer (maybe rosewood). Here's a pic after a bit of rasping. The glue is from the drying overlays.
What with the cuts being what they were, the glue lines on the back of the bow, weren't looking all that pretty, so I glued on an overlay of that red wood and some purpleheart. Here's a pic right out of the clamps. I let the glue dry a full 48 hours, but it was in my cold basement, so that slowed the drying process a lot. I don't have any pictures of the bow without glue everywhere, but hopefully will tomorrow, if not tonight. It's drying of the woodstove right now.
Almost forgot, this bow is 63 1/2 inches ntn with asymetrical limbs. 1 1/4 at the widest until 15 inches from the tip, tapering out to 3/8 tips. Aiming for 50@29. This is uneven lmb length thinger is another first for me, so it'll be an adventure.
This is the hardcore crunch time at school, so this will probably take a fair amount of time to complete. I've got boat loads of homework every night as well as several other commitments, so I can only work on the bow during rare down time.
Topic: The Beauty of Osage... Buildalong *finishing up tiller* (Read 38735 times)
