Osage with a bit of character (Finished bow pg 3)

tenbrook · February 11, 2011, 09:18:00 PM

Great job on the tiller.

Looks just about perfect to me!

formerbutcher · February 11, 2011, 09:29:00 PM

Goose,I don't think i'd touch it, how many shots do you have through it ?

Goose Gossett · February 11, 2011, 09:36:00 PM

Before the wife came home I put about a dozen through it. Shooting off my hand and it's kickin them out pretty well.

1oldbowguy · February 11, 2011, 09:38:00 PM

NICE, well done sir.

Pat B · February 11, 2011, 09:40:00 PM

She looks sweet Goose. Once you get the tips reduced she'll soften up a bit more.

burnt · February 11, 2011, 11:05:00 PM

nice bow. I think your full draw picture is skewed. the right limb looks a little high as if the horizontal plane of the handle area is not quite level. tiller looks good. congradulations.

GREG IN MALAD · February 12, 2011, 12:48:00 AM

I wish my self bows were tillered that well. How long is the bow?

George Tsoukalas · February 12, 2011, 07:44:00 AM

Looks really good. Only thing is I can hear her screaming in protest from being left at full draw for so long while you snap a pic. Have you ever thought of using a rope and pulley? Jawge

Goose Gossett · February 12, 2011, 12:53:00 PM

Thanks for the kudos y'all

Greg: The bow is 64" ntn

George: I have thought about a pulley system just haven't got around to it yet. With the new house things just can't be attached to the wall without the wife's approval. So, I'm trying to think of a system that is portable and movable but also stable enough to pull on and draw a bow.

Aram · February 12, 2011, 03:31:00 PM

Looking good! Congratulations!
You can attach a pulley right on the lower part of that 2X4. Not ideal but it will work.

Goose Gossett · February 12, 2011, 05:27:00 PM

Put about 75 shots through the bow today with this nice weather. Shooting well and only about 1" of set

1oldbowguy · February 12, 2011, 05:52:00 PM

Sweet.

Osagetree · February 12, 2011, 07:50:00 PM

It looks much better in the hand!

longbowhntr · February 12, 2011, 08:38:00 PM

Good job Goose.

I agree with osagetree, "looks much better in the hand."

David

Eric Krewson · February 13, 2011, 09:05:00 AM

Unlike everyone else I thought the right limb in the tiller stick picture looked awful but in the full draw picture everything looks mighty good. Just shows how a picture taken from a slight angle can distort the subject.

Art B · February 13, 2011, 09:36:00 AM

Looking real good Goose !

That just goes to show you how the heel pressure of the hand brings that lower limb around Eric. Last thing you want to see om the tillering tree is evenly bending limbs if you grip a bow like Goose IMO.

That's what I've been preaching about. "Grip a bow for the way it was designed or design a bow for your intended grip"....Art

KochNE · February 13, 2011, 10:02:00 AM

^^^What Eric said! Looks great, Goose!

Pat B · February 13, 2011, 01:50:00 PM

Looking pretty good to me, Goose.

Goose Gossett · February 13, 2011, 02:37:00 PM

Art B: Great info and wisdom.

Eric: This is a picture of the bow bending from the other side. There are a couple of rollercoasters on the right side of the tillering tree pictures that do make it look jankity. With the full draw picture it is showing the opposite side which definitely makes it look better.

Thanks for the kind words and insight y'all!

KellyG · February 13, 2011, 02:43:00 PM

Looks good and I hope mine bends that nice before to long