First osage bow....Full Draw pic!!

[Osagetree]

Good to hear you aint gave up! Looking forward to the pics!

[bowhntineverythingnh03743]

Ok guys... I wrapped the crack with artificial sinew last night and soaked it with CA glue... Now what should be the next step?

After a few hours of drying I strung the bow up and the wrapped limb has a sharper bend in it so the tiller has been thrown off... tonight I will throw up a picture of that but here is the one of the wrap...
 
 

[bowhntineverythingnh03743]

Ok guys here is a braced shot of the bow... I need to mount the tiller tree inside the garage tomorrow night so that I can start tillering some more... How does it look?

 
 

[KellyG]

looks good

[okie64]

Lookin good. One thing I would do is round the corners off a little more with some sandpaper to be sure you dont pull up a splinter. You'll lose a little bit of draw weight doin that too. How much weight it drops will depend on how much you round it off.

Its been nuthin but hot weather here since deer season opened so I know exactly what you're talkin about with the deer movement.

[bowhntineverythingnh03743]

OK guys I have a flat spot where I put the wrap in... Do I take it off and scrape under the wrap to fix this or not... Can someone point me in the right direction please!

 

I hope this picture will show that the wrap limb is flatter now then the other limb

[Art B]

In a situation like that I use a temporary wrap so I can remove and tiller if necessary. So if you need to do some tillering in that area you're going to have to remove the wrap and replace when you have things right. Like I said, use a temporary wrap that can be easily removed and rewraped when necessary.

[bowhntineverythingnh03743]

Ok I will remove the wrap and sand down any glue that is left so that I can fix this spot... I think that it only got the flat spot because of the wrap... How do you fix that aspect of it?

[vanillabear?]

[bowhntineverythingnh03743]

I worked on the tiller of this bow some more with the gizmo... it is at 56 poumds at 23 inches... I think that I have to work on the fade area and just work the transitions.... What do you think?

 

I think the left limb needs it more than the right and hopefully this would help with dropping the weight around 55-57 ponds at 28 inches

[bowhntineverythingnh03743]

So after some work on the fade area and some more tillering I got the bow to 57# at 26 inches... I decided to stop so that at my 27 inch draw it would be 60ish pounds. The tiller is not perfect and I have learned a ton along the way. I did a matching wrap of artifical sinew on each limb. Next I need to put a finish on it of tru oil and then wrap the handle in a beaver tail that my friend trapped last year.

The full draw shot looks a little off because I am canting it but I think that it is pretty even on both sides. I stopped because I didn't want to go much under 60#. I shot it tonight in the light from my truck headlights... Such an amazing feeling shooting a cedar arrow that I put together out of a bow that started as a raw stave.

Thanks so much to all the input and advice along the way. I learned many things that will come in handy with my next bow that I have started.... As Gary Davis said in his video... When you hit your weight stop no matter what the tiller looks like... Even if it isn't the best make your next bow be the perfect one!

Again thanks guys for the help along the way... its great to be able to share this with you and have people to shout back....

 
 

Final thoughts on the bow are welcomed.... I plan on shooting it a ton tomorrow so that I can get out and hunt with it before the end of the week!

[vanillabear?]

[BeNoIt]

Looks great Justin. Just read the whole thread and this is really encouraging to me as I am just about to start working on my first board bow.

Thanks for sharing!

[Roy from Pa]

The tiller looks pretty nice Justin, congrats..

[okie64]

Glad to see it all worked out for you. Osage is some great stuff. Tiller looks pretty dead-on to me.