Sorry I haven't been here posting my progress, but when I started I was unemployed. I guess it'd the norm for 60yr. old's now. I now am working again after 5 months.
Here is my progress, first off I had 2 failures both with hickory. First was a board bow that broke at the nock. Second was a hickory stave that broke during the tillering process.
I went back to the Osage stave I originally posted before the drawing. The drawing through me off. My *********** had a super long draw. After both Hickory bows resulted in fire wood. I called on several resources from Trad Gang. All said use the osage but since the draw length is *1.5 go slow and use every bit of the limb you can.
Here's some pics taken a week ago;
The limb on the right is stiff ans as of today still is. although a little less. The Left limb is bending except for 3 small areas where there are proud areas on the back.
I am maintaining to work slow then I'll flip the tips to allow for the *1.5" draw.
Sorry for not keeping up to date with the progress, but my new job has been a dominant force just trying to keep up with.
Lee