I'll try not to be too long winded to start but wanted to do a special build along. Last week I lost my first hunting partner, my dad. He was 74. We had many many good times hunting and shooting bows and guns. He was a great man. He retired from farming in 2000 just about the time I started building bows.
He was my biggest fan. His favorite bows that I have ever built were the osage self bows. I guess because we don't have many osage trees in our little corner of the world. He helped me harvest wood of all kinds and got them sawn at mills or whatever it took.
His favorite thing to do was drive around all our field roads looking for snakes to back bows. We live in rice country so there were plenty around. I still have several copperheads and cotton mouth that he found for me to use.
I haven't built a self bow in a couple years. I've been on a glass bow run for a while now. I started the build this afternoon. I don't know how it will turn out but I thought I would just let the shavings fly and see what happens while thinking of him all the while.
I will try to post as many pics as I can along the way because as Roy says "it don't hapin wiff out pichers".
Picked out a really dry stave I've had for several years given to me by my bud Brian Oden.
Topic: Self Bow Build Along (Read 2303 times)
