I recently finished up a few new bows. The first one is snakey osage with coral snake skins. A friend of mine did most of the bow work. It opened a side crack as he was shooting it in. He filled it with superglue and gave up on the bow. He gave it to me since I have a shorter draw length. I sinew wrapped the crack and it shoots fine. I traded for the coral skins 3 years ago. I've been saving them for something special. They were really old and had moth holes in them. The skins wouldn't flex around the bends in the wood so I had to cut and splice them at every curve.
-- Edited by osage outlaw on Monday 23rd of May 2016 08:25:32 AM
These two bows are for a trade with a couple of friends that I camp with at the Tennessee Classic. The darker bow is full of lead pellets. It looks like it took a shot from a rabbit hunter several years before it was cut. I pulled a few lead pellets out of the belly as I was thinning the limbs. In one of the knots on the back you can see a pellet lodged in the wood. I tried to get a picture of it.
