Worked on my new osage orange stave chasing a ring for the back. The ring I am chasing is below about 9 or 10 other rings so i've been scraping like crazy. I've got the ring chased probably a bout a foot down the stave and still got a long way to go. I spent probably about 5 hours total today scraping, I'll try to spend more time tomorrow.
I'll scrape for about an hour here, take a break, scrape for another hour here, so on and so forth. This helps me from getting too tired as well as getting into a hurry. Maybe between tomorrow and Tuesday i'll have her wrapped up, then I can work on drawing the profile and using a hatchet to get her to the rough profile.
The stave is 72" so I think I'm going to shoot for a 68" bow NTN (70" T2T) and 65# @ 28 (so about 55# at 26.5 my draw). This leaves me a cushion in case she's a little lighter than that so that I can still have a deer slayer.
What do you guys think?