What did you do today?

[Nim-rod]

Got a box for shipping my trade bow out. Still wondering what to for the last final touches. The strings I left long on the leather handle need to be either cut off of something added to them.

[Mike Mecredy]

Today I got 3 bows finished, and sat around and waited for my smooth-on to get here so I can glue up more.  It's here now, but I have something else I have to do for the rest of the afternoon now!

[coaster500]

Well I guess I've been lucky so far with this bow building thing but to day I destroyed a Mullberry stave that took me the best part of the day to get a clean ring (really small, tight rings)....  Oh well I guess if you do this long enough, stuff happens...  sure was a nice looking stave though   :(

Consoled myself by getting my Osage stave pretty close to a string...

[DVSHUNTER]

Sorry to here that ryan. Sometimes bad bows happen to good people.

I worked on cleaning up one of my glue ups last night.

 

 

[SportHunter]

Layed out a hickory board bow as a backup for the tg swap.

[H8nonCubs]

Where to begin. Helped a friend of dvs and i build a form for fiberglass bows.
 
started to shoot one in
 
Added some rasp (protectors) made from spare rivercane
 
tweaked a limb on a possible hbo or bbo
 
 
and took a noce piece of osage down to a single growth ring. Probly finish roughin it out tomorrow
 
 

[DVSHUNTER]

Went stumpin.

[rmorris]

Wanted to make sure that my trade bow was the correct weight so I calibrated my scale hung a know amount of weight and then made sure the scale read that amount.

[DVSHUNTER]

My scale is always off. I more or less just guess on everything anyway.

[Roy from Pa]

I worked     :mad:  

But I'm off Mon and Tue, Bow Shop here I come.      

[rmorris]

DVS I know what you are talking about, I tell people I can make you any weight bow within a 32nd of a pound becaue I will just write to weight they wanted on it and tell them their scale is the wrong one becaue mine is dead on. Hahah

[red hill]

Peeled three osage staves down to almost one ring. Hafta finish them up tomorrow after school.
Also have some bamboo to experiment on.

[Osagetree]

Searched for an osage limb to make a limb bow for myself. Kinda funny look'n!!

 
 
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[Osagetree]

Came across a small tree and went to work with my small saw.

Never seen so much sap this fer into winter.


Nice rings so I was happy..


The trunk was long enough to get two logs one 68" and the other was 60"...



Got'em home, split, sealed, dated the ends and added them to my drying rack..




Nothing like Scrub-Busters haul!

[Stiks-n-Strings]

Joe Your an animal!

[Nim-rod]

Why can't Osage grow in NH???? I WANT TO CUT SOME TOO!

[karrow]

nice looking osage joe those are great rings

[stringstretcher]

Joe, do you use a saw to run a  kirf down to split?  I have never seen osage split that clean without doing that?

[Art B]

Always split with wedges Charles, never kerf a log. Well, unless red elm    ......Art

[stringstretcher]

Gotch you Art.  I never do, but those look just to darn straight not to have.  Or maybe I need to get some splitting lessons....