Hunting the Osage Bow build along **Teaching a bow to bend**

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Re: Hunting the Osage Bow build along **Teaching a bow to bend**

#221 Post by Captainkirk »

Wow, this has been quite an adventure, Dave!
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#222 Post by stumper »

Captainkirk wrote: Mon Jun 03, 2019 10:23 am Wow, this has been quite an adventure, Dave!
Yes... and it's not over. Very much looking like I will have to use heat and bend it. Looking for scraps of wood to design a jig. Will need bunch of cheap clamps from harbor freight. I have some ideas.
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Re: Hunting the Osage Bow build along **Teaching a bow to bend**

#223 Post by stumper »

Get back to town on Wednesday night and will hopefully put the workbenches my wife bought me for fathers day together. Hopefully I will get it setup and get back to working on this bow. It has a wood to wood vice that will be perfect to help me with this project.
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Re: Hunting the Osage Bow build along **Teaching a bow to bend**

#224 Post by Nock »

Sounds line a great gift. Can’t wait to see it in action.
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Re: Hunting the Osage Bow build along **Teaching a bow to bend**

#225 Post by Carpdaddy »

Your gaining knowledge with every setback and have come a long way in that area. But I have warned many of the danger of bow wood dust, once it gets in your lungs you are addicted, she just as well get you some bow tools, this is not going away! You have good leverage, when you are whittling on the kitchen floor, and mounting to the table, she will probably buy you anything to get you outside! :lol: :lol: You da man! :mrgreen:

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Re: Hunting the Osage Bow build along **Teaching a bow to bend**

#226 Post by stumper »

Bench finally put together.
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Re: Hunting the Osage Bow build along **Teaching a bow to bend**

#227 Post by Captainkirk »

Dave, you never told me you was a guitar picker!
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Re: Hunting the Osage Bow build along **Teaching a bow to bend**

#228 Post by stumper »

I was a guitar major in college for a while
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Re: Hunting the Osage Bow build along **Teaching a bow to bend**

#229 Post by Grizzly »

I wish when I was younger that (this list could be endless) that I'd applied myself more to playing the piano instead of wanting to go outside and play ball with the other kids.
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Re: Hunting the Osage Bow build along **Teaching a bow to bend**

#230 Post by White Falcon »

Very nice work!

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