I finally got everything finished up on the Osage longbow I was working on for my buddy in Virginia. He's chomping at the bit to get it in his hands. I've got 4 cedar arrows I need to finish up and then the package will be on it's way. I think it turned out really good, but you know how it is with any new bow.......I always worry myself sick about it until it's had over 100 shots through it and even then there's no guarantees. Oh well, it's only wood and if distaster strikes I'll just make another one.
I'll shut up and post some pics now.
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Your friend will proud to own that one Chris, nice work!
very nice. your friend is a lucky man. don
man thats a classy bow !! nice work
Wow, very nice. Your friend is a very lucky person..
Thanks fellas. Now I get to finally get started on my Trade bow for the bow swap.
I'll take lots of pics of the bow build on that one. Maybe do a complete stave to bow pictorial on it?
Very nice work!
I guess it's ok :)
QuoteOriginally posted by Roy from Pa:
I guess it's ok :)
:p :saywhat: Hi Roy! :wavey:
Howdy Semo:)
very nice...can I be your friend :)
You already are Razorbak, we are all friends here.........well, except for Roy. He's special so we try not to provoke him too much. :goldtooth:
That is a beautiful bow. I never cease to be amazed at the stunning craftsmanship I see on this forum.
Looks good semo
Good job Semo! Looks great. How did it shoot?
MMMMMM... Virginia huh? Nah...never that lucky....lol Great job and great bow there Semo
Good looking bow Semo but you broke the golden rule. Where are the full draw pics?
LOOKS GREAT SEMO! There is going to be big smiles in VA soon!
Thanks guys, I know Kelly. I have a hard time finding someone to take my picture, but I'll get my dad to take a couple pics of me today at full draw and get em on here.
I also forgot to mention the specs didn't I?
It's 64" from nock groove to nock groove and 50# @29" but I need to get her back on the scale just to see if it held the poundage after I finished it.
Charlie- I've got a few buddies up your way that live around Dublin, Va. We all belong to a reloading site and have been internet friends for about 3 years now. I'm actually a moderator there and one of my buddies started the site and he gave me my very own little archery section to show off my work.
QuoteOriginally posted by Razorbak:
very nice...can I be your friend :)
No kidding, your friend is lucky! That's a beautiful bow!
What did you use for tip overlays?
Very nice, indeed, S_H.
Nice looking bow. I am making my first bow. It is a slow process as I make the tools and think through the process. It helps a lot to see what others are doing.
nice looking bow. your friend will be happy I'm sure.
QuoteOriginally posted by Leafwalker:
QuoteOriginally posted by Razorbak:
very nice...can I be your friend :)
No kidding, your friend is lucky! That's a beautiful bow!
What did you use for tip overlays? [/b]
That's Rosewood that was some end cuts that my father got at a lumber yard that used to cut up hardwood. They were cuttting up some Rosewood that a guy got from another country and had it shipped to them. He made Xylephones and the Rosewood was for the keys......go figure.
My father asked if he could have some of the end cuts and the guy said sure, take all you want. I'm just about out of it and have been carefully hoarding what little stash I have left just for tip overlays.
Rosewood, eh? I may have to pick some of that up, I really like the way it turned out for the tips. You've got a talent for making bows, that's for sure!
Thank You Ryan. I learned everything I know from these guys right here, and a little trial and error. Well, actually alot of trial and error, but it's all been fun even the failures because it's a learning process. If you pay attention to what these older guys are saying it will take years off the learning curve and before you know it you will have more successes than failures. :thumbsup:
Hey Semo that looks real nice
Kris
Very nice, SEMO. When you post the full draw pics how 'bout a shot of the belly. I'm working an osage stave and your belly grain looks similar.
Stan
She turned out really nice Chris! :readit: Congratulations...........Art
QuoteOriginally posted by red hill:
Very nice, SEMO. When you post the full draw pics how 'bout a shot of the belly. I'm working an osage stave and your belly grain looks similar.
Stan
There for a minute I thought you wanted a pic of MY Belly! Hey wait a minute!
:goldtooth: :laughing:
Sure I can do that, but you shouldn't need to worry much about the belly grain, just let it be what it is and tiller it evenly. I'll get my father to take some full draw pics of me here in just a bit.
Thanks Art, and the rest of you all for the help in the right direction, and thanks for the gizmo Eric. Where is Eric?
Full Draw and Belly Pics.
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More belly pics, don't know if these will help ya out or not Red? But here they are.
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Looks great! I'm sure your friend will love it.
That is some clean looking osage, nice bow.
Looks crappy from my seat.....Poor finish job, and that bottom limb is stiff, looks like the upper is close to hinging mid limb to me? Maybe next time you can build a decent one...Who knows? :p
Roy....is that you? Oooops........sorry Pearl I thought Roy jumped in here for second. :thumbsup:
You didn't tell me your buddies name was Knawbone, Ha,Ha. Really looks good Semo, Nice looking bow :clapper:
What a sweet looking bow! Nice work.
Good job Chris!
What does it feel like when you drop the string?
Looking at the pictures brings back a lot of good memories for me.
They took me back to my days of handkerchiefs full of "yellar snot", small nicks and splinters sticks from fingers to forearms, strained eyes from chasing some very thin ringed tight growth hedge.
But just like you, it was all worth it because when I ws finished..... I had a stick.
But it was a special stick because it would fling an arrow!
Keep shaving wood Chris, you'll only get better at it!!
Thanks for sharing my friend.
God bless,Mudd
Thanks Roy, yep it's all just like that. My hands get stained from working with Osage and it takes days for it to wear off when I'm done. I love it!
If you cut me I bleed yellar! :thumbsup:
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Originally posted by SEMO_HUNTER:
Thanks Roy, yep it's all just like that. My hands get stained from working with Osage and it takes days for it to wear off when I'm done. I love it!
If you cut me I bleed yellar! :bigsmyl:
Yellar is Redneck slang for Yellow. :goldtooth:
That arrow is on my custom made arm guard, I got tired of sloppy arm guards with adjustable stretchy bands that always slide around and never seem to fit right so I made one that fits my forearm perfectly and it wears just like a shirt sleeve.
Thanks for the compliments Ricky.
Hey Chris... What did you use as a tip overlay? Looks awesome! Now only if my bows will look as good as that
Justin (New Hampshire)
That's rosewood on the tips, thanks.
very nice semo, hows it shoot?
QuoteOriginally posted by broketooth:
very nice semo, hows it shoot?
It's pretty smooth Ruddy. I was having some slight accuracy problems, then I checked my brace height and realized that the string had finally settled in and creeped on me about 3/4"
So I added some more twist to the string and Bam.....it came right back to the center of the target.
I'm glad I had the foresight to check my brace ht. first rather than start jacking around with my string nock position.
I'm learning, little by little, but I am learning. That's just proof in the pudding of hanging out with good company here on Trad Gang. :thumbsup:
About 6 months ago checking the brace height wouldn't have even occured to me.
Very nice bow
Chris, that is a good looking bow.
Thanks Walt and Lester, I appreciate everyone's compliments.
Very nice bow . Your friend will be happy.
That is a great lookin bow Semo!
Chris that turned out a beauty! I dig the armguard as well - sometimes I fergit which end of the arra to nock so it's good to have a visual :p
Great work man.
Thanks,SEMO, that's what my osage is beginning to look like on the belly. Good job.
Stan
Great looker Chris. That is some good looking osage you got up your way, the stuff we got down here round this old swamp is not near as clean. I was home yesterday with what ever bug is going around and entertained myself pretty much all day just heating and straightening a piece so the string will stay on it.
Thanks guys, glad you all enjoyed the pics. Bow swap bow build is coming real soon!
I need to get that one done before turkey season get's here.
Hey Jeff, I bet y'all got plenty of water to flood those cypress swamps down there now don't ya? We were just down at Wappapello yesterday and they actually had the river part drawn down too low. I thought it would be high, but evidently they are letting out lots of water in preperation for the spring rains that are just beginning.
BTW- I had that same virus your talking about and dang near ended up with pnemonia from it, so be careful with it. That's some bad stuff and we all had it here and everybody ended up on antibiotics to get over it. Uuuuggghhh!
you wasn't tryin to catch some of those crappie were ya? Man they been catching some nice fish this last week. Not me just got back from the doc with a bag full of meds and orders from the wife to get some sleep (like it is gonna help, haven't slept in 2 days what is another one gonna hurt )
Seriously, you ought to see the piece I am trying to straighten today, most would make fire wood out of it, one of these days I will get a nice straight clean piece of osage that will change my mind about it. I have trouble seeing the bend for all the knots and kinks, have yet to make a really pretty tillered sage bow.
Gonna make a trip up your way before too long, gonna check out that hard woods dealer up there.Needing some ash backing and hate to buy it by the piece for a oak bow. Found some hog sign Saturday at the lake, if I can find a good place for a bait pile you may have to come down and bring one of those pretty sage bows to help a fellar out in case a hickory bow wont get the job done.
We caught some crappie up by 67 hwy bridge at Greenville, that's usually where we put in. We caught a ton of small ones and only 3 that went over 10", but kept 11 white bass and 1 large mouth. Pretty decent day actually, didn't really tear them up by any means, but it beats the crap outta sittin in the house.
Man it would be cool to kill a hawg in my own home state. That's definitely on my bucket list.
Thanks for the offer......Git R Done!!
Ill get over this what ever it is and scout it out a little more, my wifes uncle had one run across in front of him deer season not a mile from where I found the rubs. Trick is to coax them out after daylight. We have a growing population around the lake but they stay nocturnal. A little corn soaked in raspberry jello will help keep them interested until the sun comes up ,
Diesel fuel, yep soak some corn in diesel fuel. That's what a local told my little brother down in Texas and he's got hogs and deer on trail camera eating it up like crazy! Don't know what it is about diesel fuel but hogs love it! He said he had no idea that deer would eat it too, but he's got a 12pt. on camera from back around December that was eating on it for a little over an hour and never looked up. Go figure?
You should try a small batch with the diesel fuel and see how quick it disappears.
dont know if I want to eat somthing that is chowing down of fuel. That cant be good
Yall are killing me with all this talk about fishing. hmmm
That is some nice work.Anyone would be proud to take that out.
Thanks Llamma1. I sure hope so cause I just got it shipped out this afternoon along with 4 cedar woodies and a small cake of my home made bees wax string wax. Don't want that hand made flemish twist string drying out. :thumbsup:
That's what so cool about doing this kind of thing, every single piece is hand crafted. Only materials that are made by man is the dacron string and the finish on the bow.
The rest was supplied courtesy of Mother Nature. :campfire: