The Beauty of Osage... Buildalong *finishing up tiller*

[NorthShoreLB]

Luke, You cannot temper the belly once you have glued a backing, the heat required for tempering the wood will get the glue to fail.

Stay with that bow, you can always make a heavyer on the next one

Manny

[Luke Vander Vennen]

thanks Manny

[Dano]

Luke, you don't have to dig too deeply into the skin to flick the scales off. Usually tape does the trick and all you have left is a half dozen or so to mess with.

[Luke Vander Vennen]

still no luck. How badly will the scales mess up the finish? I think I might have overreacted before when I said I had butchered the skin. It still looks good. If the scales are going to be a big problem with the finish I might sand the skins off and try shoot a few big carp for it.

[1gutpile]

the scales won't bother the bow Luke...which one is giving you fits. If I remeber correctly the king had just shed so that might have been some of the problem..I have a few bows where I left the scales on purposely...they are fine and look just as good...gut

[Luke Vander Vennen]

the kingsnake has one patch of scales that won't come off, and all the scales on the rat refuse to budge. I think I'll just finish it as is, if the scales mess it up I'll just put on some new skins.

[Luke Vander Vennen]

Here she is finished. 5 layers of poly, with one more to come after naming her. Speaking of which, it needs a good name. I was thinking of calling her Bloodline, after the red line going up the top limb. Any suggestions?

[Frenchymanny]

Phoenix is a good name for her, as she was close to be firewood and you resurrected her...
That's my vote!

F-Manny

[Dano]

I'm not much on nameing bows, but she turned out nice Little Fred.

[Little Tree]

I would call it "lock-jaw" from the red line going through the "limb" of the bow.

[1gutpile]

Luke just name her Justice....cause you done her good son...gut

[Slim Buttes]

Where are the full draw pics?

[Luke Vander Vennen]

hmmm, I'm liking "Phoenix". Kinda fits with the colours too


Slim if I find time I'll get a few up sometime soon

[Yance]

Luke I just read through this whole thread and I gotta say this may very well be the best buildalong I have seen so far. I would not be concerned about the weight at all. This is a perfect example of taking a piece of wood, or lots of pieces actually, and making the best bow possible. Reread that part of the post before you measured the weight on the accurate scale, you said you were skimpin on the draw and it was still spitting fire! I would feel like a million bucks If I hade made that bow. And I believe "Phoenix" is also very fitting for her as well. I do not believe many people would have tried to let alone been able to finish this one.
Awsome work little brother.

[Bert Frelink]

Congrattulations Little Fred !!!!!
My hat is of to you my friend, you should be very proud .
I am not sure if I would have hung in there myself.
I am looking forward to the next one already.
Regards, Bert  

[Luke Vander Vennen]

uh oh. Run into a bit of a problem. It seems that now for some reason when I shoot it past 24" the string comes off the recurve on the top limb. I thought I had that licked a while ago, but it's reared its ugly head again. Anything I can do?

[1gutpile]

dry heat bro ...tweek it opposite the way it comes off...just a minor line up problem...gut

[Slim Buttes]

Check the string nock. I had a bow that was doing the same thing after I put a massey finish on it, I shot 100 times before the finish with no problems. I had a build up of finish in the nock groove a little sanding and all was better.

Maybe you should name the bow "LIFE" -- alway problems always solutions all the time.

[Luke Vander Vennen]

will the dry heat affect the skins/sinew/finish?

I think the string nock is fine Slim. Maybe a bit small, but it looks good

[Eric Krewson]

Do you have a nock overlay on the limb? Pretty hard for a string to come off with a deep groove across the back of a tip.