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

[1gutpile]

Hey Luke that curve looks fine I wouldn't try to take any out..Actually I would make it a static anyway..A working recurve will eventually pull out over time anyway from my experience..I try to go with a 60 to 65 degree curve works great for me..With osage the beauty of it is once it is cooled you can pull it off the form...I tend to let mine cool for a while though ..outta habit...She is looking good...keep me posted..gut

[Tim Clark]

Hey, Luke... once you glued the PH to the osage, you more or less made them one wood, so the crack that began in the osage went through to the PH since the stresses in the osage also now affect the PH.

Not a build-along, eh? It is in my book. In fact, maybe there's more to learn from this than from one that goes perfectly from start to finish. This thread at least presents many many "oops" opportunities to be brought out in the open and remedied as you go.

Proud of ya. You've got guts. Tell your parents from me that I salute them - they're doing a fine job of raising you. And if you're half as tenacious regarding your schoolwork and hobbies as you are with this, then I expect to see your name in print quite a bit in the future.

Well done, Master Luke. And it's wonderful to see all the terrific input from The Great Ones, too. What a bunch of great guys and gals on here...

[Luke Vander Vennen]

Thanks Tim    

Not a whole lot to report today. I only got a small amount of time to work on this her, so I did some more tip alingment. Hopefully they line up this time around.    . I'll get some more up tomorrow.

[Luke Vander Vennen]

Here's what I'm at right now. The tip is cooling now after one more time around on the tip alignment merry-go-round. Lesson learned, alinging 3/8 inch tips is not as easy as it sounds    

Here's the bow at rest



Pulled 5 or 6 inches. I think the inner thirds of both limbs are bending a bit too much, need to get the rest of the limb doing some work too.

[Dano]

Man Luke, I'm glad to see this baby on the tree, anything from here on out is a bonus. Great work son!!

[Luke Vander Vennen]

Thanks Dano. I'm still surprised it's bending again. I thought it was a gonner several time, but it keeps picking up its head and heading upstream. Osage is good wood  

[the Ferret]

Luke your tip alignment lesson frustrated me once so badly I ended cutting them off and making a bendy handled straight end bow out of it. Next time align them when they are 3/4 inches wide and then taper the tips and avoid all that frustration.

[TaylorJohn]

Hey hey, it's on the tree! I have that same scale as you lol, oh yea Canadian Tire!

I'm eagerly awaiting the outcome of this masterpiece, I can't wait to shoot it!

[Luke Vander Vennen]

LOL Mickey, I was getting close.    . Normally I do leave them 3/4 inches wide and then taper, but in this case I wasn't planning on recurving until after I had thinned the tips. Ah well, it's all fine and good now, I think they're nicely in line now.


lol Taylor, I don't know what all those unfortunate Americans do without Canadian Tire  :D

[Cody Roiter]

Luke,Looks like the bow is going good.
Yes what would we do without the Canadian Tire.
best to you.
Cody

[Bert Frelink]

Luke I have been following along with great anticipation, good work!!!
I have build some bows out of questionable wood but you take the cake my friend.

[Luke Vander Vennen]

Thanks for the encouragement Bert. I appreciate it.

With a lot of effort I got it strung yesterday. Brace height WOULD have been 3 or 4 inches, but the bow is still high in poundage and all I have for strings is B50. The string stretched right down to the handle  :mad:  . Still got a lot of weight to play with.

[Carbon Caster]

Luke,

Send me your address again via PM, and I will send you a half used spool of black 450+ that I have NO use for anymore.  I use 8125, and I don't need this stuff taking up space.  Looking good by the way.  If you can't get it down below 65-70# you can always send it out west.

Brina

[Luke Vander Vennen]

Thanks a lot Brian. You have a pm!

[Luke Vander Vennen]

I've been trying to take my time on this one, so naturally it's going slow. Here's where I'm at.

Profile

Drawn 10 inches

[B.O.D.]

nice WHOOP-DEE-DOO on the right limb..good job, hey, wait a minute! I know that piece(s) of bowdark....
BD9 hope you had that in a nice dry spot, cause it wasn't quite dry eh?)              :p

[Cody Roiter]

Hello Luke,
Luke your doing a very good job on the bow.
I think this one will be the one that will work
for you.
Best to you.
Cody

[Luke Vander Vennen]

haha, It's certainly dry now Cary. I don't think it has taken on any set. At all    


Thanks Cody

[1gutpile]

Gut-r-done son...gut

[hunt4life]

ttt