This is a bow that was actually built in the Winter/Spring of ’06. I just never got around to posting pics of it until now. It is a one piece osage orange,reflex-deflex working recurve, 54”ntn – 42# @ 24” (that’s a long description!).
It is my daughter, Megan’s bow. She has helped build her last 4 bows. On this one she did most all of the rough work and scraping/sanding. We both did the steaming, bending, and tiller of it. But the staining I did myself because I’ve been experimenting with what I call “tiger stripe” or others refer to it as “fiddle-back” staining.
There are some great threads on this website for this technique. We named the bow “Osage Tiger II” because it is my second attempt at this method of staining.
Megan loves the bow and it shoots really sweet. She shot it all Summer and did well at the “competitive” shoots with it. But due to a busy school year & athletics she was not able to hunt with it this Fall. Maybe she can chase turkeys with it this Spring.
Our deer season is over now and we all are thinking about our next season, we have a lot of ideas being kicked around. I know many of you are doing the same so I thought I might post these pics to throw a spark and get a fire started for the, ’07 BOW BUILDING SEASON !!!!
Topic: Osage Tiger II (osage recurve) (Read 1133 times)
