Great job 4est ! You're a lucky guy 4est to have a brother in law that supplies you with plenty of osage and he's also a lucky guy because you really know how to use it in an appropriate way.

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Andy

Nice work!!! That is a beautifull bow.
Bert.

Great job !!!!!  As Bert said  beautiful bow.

Wow!! You have the gift- that is one cool bow, great job.

Great looking bow!  

Question on tillering.....

Do you do any of the tillering before gluing on the siyahs or is it complete before you start bending it?

Great question, AKmud...I actually began with the stave around 64 inches. I tillered on the short string until about 24 inches, never pulling beyond my intended draw weight (45#).  Then I trimmed it down, added the siyahs, and tillered it out from there.

Thanks for the kind comments, everyone!    

Nice end product..

Man I like that!  Very nice.

Great looking bow, 4est! could you give a bit more detail on attaching the siyahs to the osage, and how the process of finishing the bow went after that stage?

and i am having you make me a knife?i think you need to make me a bow too LOL.sweet bow buddy.you are going to make him one happy guy.thanks for the look,steve

Thanks, gents!  John, I simply prepared both the limb tips and siyahs bottom on the belt sander, being careful to keep the surfaces such that the siyahs would be situated at perfect 90 degree angles.  I angled the surface on the limb tip to help smooth the transition, avoid bulk, and increase the gluing surface area.  I then roughed the mating surfaces up a bit with a hacksaw blade and glued them using Urac.  You can cure Urac at room temp or with heat. That's all there was to it.  

Thanks for sharing such a creative and impressive example of bench time well spent, and the secrets to making it happen. Just another question if you don't mind... Can a college graduate enlist in your shop class? A friend of mine asked me to ask.

Real nice and I bed the joints are as strong as the rest of the limbs.

4est are you a lefty? Noticed you back quiver is on that side.

Thanks, Joe.  Actually, no, I'm not a lefty.  I do  write and eat with my left hand, but do almost everything else, including shooting, with my right.  My quiver is a side quiver that rides a bit like a back quiver.

Gotcha...

Ya got nice penmanship on your bows too!