Author Topic: First osage selfbow and ring chasing.....PICS ADDED (Read 2498 times)

highpoint forge · « **Reply #20 on:** March 06, 2015, 02:01:00 PM »

These are 50".

highpoint forge · « **Reply #21 on:** March 06, 2015, 02:02:00 PM »

highpoint forge · « **Reply #22 on:** March 06, 2015, 02:02:00 PM »

highpoint forge · « **Reply #23 on:** March 06, 2015, 02:03:00 PM »

These are 60"

highpoint forge · « **Reply #24 on:** March 06, 2015, 02:04:00 PM »

highpoint forge · « **Reply #25 on:** March 06, 2015, 02:04:00 PM »

highpoint forge · « **Reply #26 on:** March 06, 2015, 02:05:00 PM »

highpoint forge · « **Reply #27 on:** March 06, 2015, 02:06:00 PM »

Last two here are billets for sure 40".

highpoint forge · « **Reply #28 on:** March 17, 2015, 08:43:00 PM »

Any recommendations? Start making billets? Remove all the wormy outer stuff and surface checking and reseal?

D.Ellis · « **Reply #29 on:** March 17, 2015, 11:51:00 PM »

A couple of those look not bad.....at least from this angle.
I'd work one of them down to see how far in those checks and bug holes go and then see what you have left. I think the one that is 3rd pic from the bottom looks fairly promising.
That billet on the left looks wide enough for a couple limbs.....I'd say come over and we'll whup one up, but it may be a bit too far for you to travel :D

Pick one out, start reducing the back to one useable ring, and then post pics again when you have it closer. Seal the back with wood glue or the like as soon as you get it trimmed down....I have had osage check on the back of a freshly exposed ring even when it was "fully dry". It was "deep south" dry, but my RH here is a lot lower than that normally.
Luck

Darcy

highpoint forge · « **Reply #30 on:** March 18, 2015, 02:10:00 PM »

Darcy let me know if you want to see better pictures....I don't know where to start.

John Scifres · « **Reply #31 on:** March 18, 2015, 05:54:00 PM »

I'd say going for a spliced billet bow is your only choice. You need to get a clean ring though. Try to get two billets that match a bit in rings etc.

highpoint forge · « **Reply #32 on:** March 18, 2015, 06:31:00 PM »

Spliced is what I want! Is there a preferred layout? I get the one ring part....

D.Ellis · « **Reply #33 on:** March 19, 2015, 12:48:00 AM »

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Originally posted by highpoint forge:

This one is 60" long?
Got any other pics? That's long enough for a bendy handle, and you don't need much wood for that kind of bow.

Darcy

John Scifres · « **Reply #34 on:** March 19, 2015, 08:34:00 AM »

I just use a z-splice. Others advocate a double-fishtail.

http://bowyersworkshop.com/splicing1.htm

http://bowyersworkshop.com/splicing2.htm

highpoint forge · « **Reply #35 on:** March 19, 2015, 11:49:00 AM »

I believe I have two 60" pieces and I'll post pics of them.

I'll also look at the z splice...

First I need to get underneath the bore holes.

highpoint forge · « **Reply #36 on:** March 19, 2015, 03:49:00 PM »

6 of them are 50" not 60". Not sure what I was smoking that day.

fujimo · « **Reply #37 on:** March 19, 2015, 09:21:00 PM »

well 50" spliced will still be way more than plenty

highpoint forge · « **Reply #38 on:** March 20, 2015, 07:49:00 PM »

That's what I thought but for splices you pick a length, splice the rough limbs and then shape the overall bow?

Going to need flat back according to Bowyer's Workshop....plane them maybe?

D.Ellis · « **Reply #39 on:** March 21, 2015, 12:09:00 AM »

NO! Please don't plane them, unless you plan to back them with boo or hickory!
Work a couple down to one ring.....then you splice them(or use TD sleeves) keeping that ring intact.
I recommend you just work a bunch down to the first bug free and crack free(as much as possible)rings you find, then seal the backs with a bit of shellac or wood glue, and post pics again.
Darcy

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