Howdy, all. Having moved this year, I haven't built too many bows. However, here is an osage selfbow that a friend asked me to make from a 12 year old stave that he was tired of chasing around his basement. So, here's what I came up with. It's 69" oal/67" ntn drawing 45#@28". It's got water buffalo horn tip overlays with double nocks for easier and safer stringing. The original stave was a lot more reflexed than I like, so I took a good bit out on my caul. I left some character in it, though, especially coming out of the fade on the top limb. She holds 1.5" of reflex and a fair amount of natural setback in the handle. Thanks for looking!
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Here's a few more pictrues:
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I guess it's OK:)
Great job! Gotta love Osage.
Beautiful bow, I am seriously considering attempting this type of build, and if I do I can only hope is come out as beautiful as yours. Good Job :thumbsup:
4est
Love your work man!
If that's plain than plain is perfect in my eyes...
thanks for sharing
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Glenn
Looks good Curt.
Nice bow
Rob
looks real nice and just about the prettiest handwriting I ever seen :biglaugh:
Thanks, fellas, for the kind comments. I appreciate them. It's nice to finish a bow again. I meet my friend later today for a weekend of camping and living history demonstrations at the local state historical park we be both work at. I enjoy giving them to their new owner almost as much as I do building them.
Beautiful, love your writing on the bow.
What type pen etc. do you use?
I use a metal nibbed calligraphy pen dipped in black India ink. Works well...except that I'm left handed! Makes for a troublesome task to say the least :)
Beautiful bow!!! Great lines and tiller! :thumbsup:
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :notworthy: :notworthy: Real nice job!!
Very nice!
Nice stick 4est. I like the simple ones the best.
Came out great, 4est. Nice job. Jawge
Very nice, 4est!
Thanks, fellas. Funny story...I got this bow all ready to roll and met up with my friend to deliver it this weekend while historical camping/trekking at our local 1820's log fort (a cool playhouse, to say the least). Turns out he's a lefty and I didn't know it. Ooops. That's why I hesitate to cut a shelf on any of my bows. I had all my "floppy-shelf-makin'-fixin's" with me, so she now sports an ambidextrous set of rests :)