I started on this bow last spring. Its curly osage. I didn't have much hope of this surviving from the start. The amount of curl in the grain made it poor quality for a selfbow. It was heavy and weak. I was trying for a low poundage target bow. I heard it tic while checking the weight today. I shut my eyes and yanked it back to full draw. The lower limb snapped off and hit me in the chest. Oh well, it will make some nice knife scales.
I once heard someone say that most of those snakey, narley, twisty, character bows that guys show off, you never usually see them again. The ones that you see guys shooting for years are usually made from Primo Sage.
If only Hedge grew as tall and straight as #2 pine. I guess that might get boring though.
Pin knots are what give me fits and lead to most of my dead bows.
I do have one though that was wrenched out of the ground by a bull dozer. It has real bad checks that run all over and even run off the side of the bow in places.
That bow is heavy and very stable cause it's at least 50% super glue.
I named it Stand Back and used to shoot it indoors at Chicks Archery. No one ever crowded me on the line.
One guy used to chew sunflower seeds and every time he popped one with his teeth the guys on both sides of me would take a step away.
I shot that bow one day at the club and Teagarden said the bank in town said 5 deg. It held up fine and I still got it.
I'll show it to you someday and you can even shoot it if you dare.
I have to work tomorrow so I won't be able to make the shoot. I think Bill might be going
I'm not afraid to shoot it Bambi. I knew this one was going to blow when I pulled it back. I can show you how I work around pin knots. I have a few special tools that work great on them. Its a pair of old scissors taken apart. I ground one half down into a rounded shape. I'll bring them to the September shoot with something to practice on.
