Hunting the Osage Bow build along **Teaching a bow to bend**
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Re: Hunting the Osage Bow build along
Easy does it. I did some hard looking at the stave and apparently, I was not quite deep enough into the heartwood. It sort of looked like I had found the back, but the side of the stave was showing either that I had a very thin outer ring or a thin layer of sapwood left. Either way this is gonna be the back of the bow. This took about an hour of love and care to do with a cabinet scraper.
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And I'm having a great time. Do you know how peaceful it is to just sit on a shave horse and make tinder?? Pretty cool considering I made the shave horse too and might I say it works pretty dang well!
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You can't make a statement like that and not show a couple photos. Just ain't right.
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You don’t remember the build along!? I built it in the first bow build. English styling
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That's pretty cool...did you have plans or build it from dead-reckoning?
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Google image searched shave horse and just built it out of scrap wood at my house. So to answer question... Dead reckoning.
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Re: Hunting the Osage Bow build along
Nice
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More work. Probably close to doubled the chases rings length and thinned out the rest of one side.
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