How to Chase a Ring on an Osage Stave
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
- How to Chase a Ring on an Osage Stave: In this video I'm showing how to follow a natural growth ring on the back of an Osage Orange bow stave to create a strong, flawless back for a self bow. I use a draw knife and scrapers to cut along the late wood of my chosen ring. On this stave I run into a few challenges such as knots and concave areas and I show you how I address them.
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Wow this is so much knowledge!!! It's a bit hard for me to understand it all, cause I don't speak English as my main language, and I don't recognize all the terms. But thank you for it! I am making a bow out of European acacia and this will help me a lot, for sure!
Just remember that many woods will make for good bows. You try them and learn the lessons of the wood. Then let us know what you think. I have made several bows of what was supposed to be lesser wood and they turned out good. Sycamore is one that turned out to be good after proper heat treatment. Remember, leave them long and don't go wrong.
Thank you for making this video
You're welcome!
Thank you for your great Contributions. I would like to know how long it takes a 3 inch Osage Stave to dry.
You're welcome. It really depends on the drying conditions but I would give it at least a year if not two
So now that it is down to the ring you still have dips and curves along the back. Does this affect tillering? I thought the bow has to be flat on the back. How do you work around this?
Good question. The bow doesn't 'have' to be flat on the back. If a stave has dips and bumps you follow them faithfully as you chase the ring and then when you're tillering you make the belly match the back so that you have consistent thickness. If there's a valley on the back there should be a corresponding hump on the belly to match it and vise versa.
I hear a lot of people telling first timers to go with hickory for a first bow. When I first started learning, I tried a few hickory boards then a couple staves and it just didn't work for me. My first Osage bow was a breeze. Granted, it wasn't a "great" bow, but it saved me from giving up. A clean piece of Osage is a pleasure to chase a ring. A razor sharp draw knife just glides right under that pithy early wood. :)
James Rocco I agree. Osage is a good starting wood. People make too much of the difficulty of chasing a ring.
Easy on the Yew comment Sir, haha!
Hey, I said Osage was pretty good! ;)
Great video, thanks for sharing! You seal the back with what ...?
A lot of things will work. Poly, shellac, glue, paint, etc. Something to slow down the moisture loss there. It's good to seal the back of belly splits, even on seasoned wood.
Ah shellac, thankyou.
Hi Whalen thanks for the video, man that looks like a gorgeous piece of osage, I'm over in oz and the only bits of osage I have managed to get have been poor quality ( early/late wood ratio is probably 50/50 the rings often fade into each other and yet I still loved working with it, I'd love to get a nice stave imported from the states, I need to find someone selling nice osage staves who's willing to go through with the extra hassle of importing it , where do you get your osage do you cut it yourself ?
You follow your chosen ring all the way through,is it easy you see the ring all the way from on end to the other end.
I am looking for that exact bow bench. Nowhere on the whole entire internet multiple searches. Can I request product name/manufacturer info? Thank you!
Stavemaster.com check my more recent videos. I do a whole video reviewing it. It's a great product from a great guy
I know this video is a little older, but in trying to find the difference between the stavemaster bench "basic and tall" ive struggled. I am 5'10" on a day ive stretched and 5'9" when i cannot build inertia, and dont want to shoot myself in the foot with a 500$ purchase to find it uncomfortable. Any insights?
Sure, I get it. I'm 5'8" and I like the smaller version. I can use the larger one, it's not uncomfortable but it's more of a reach for my legs. Talk to Keenan and he might be able to help you further.
@@SwiftwoodBows i really appreciate you reaching out! Ive seen you using it and it seems to work fabulously. Ill take that advice and reach out, however i think you've helped a bunch already! I also thankyou for the thorough video content. Expanding from the traditional bowyers bible to your videos has truly been helpful to explain some details I struggle to see.
@@joshhill4903 you're welcome!
How do you sharpen your scrapers?
I use a metal file and and burnishing rod. I'm planning to do a short video showing the process. I will try to remember to come back and comment here once it is finished.
Your scraper was what and the design of your scraper.
It's called a gooseneck scraper
Merci pour votre vidéo. Mais j'ai l'impression que vous etes handicapé des jambes ? Bon courage pour faire votre arc? L'osage des oranges est un bois fantastique. Je suis en train de fabriquer un petit arc pour cheval de 1,20m de long. Arc Turc? tres compliqué à faire. Patrick Dupré France
I want some identifies indian boow wood tree but I don't like bomboo bow
1/16 on your scraper.
Yew bows will charge you a quarter each time u pull from it
I’m envious of anyone that doesn’t have a allergic reaction to Osage it breaks me out really bad feels like fiberglass and fine cactus thorns in my skin it attacks my face forearms inside my elbows and knees and yes that other thing lol I mask up and gloves it still can get me I have some beautiful 75 inch staves im scared to death of so my bows take a long time between so been making some lilac and chokecherry Bows it’s all over up here in MONTANA I need a hazmat suit for the Osage it’s the only thing I’ve ever been allergic to be careful breathing that s$&@
I'm allergic to it as well. That's why I sound so stuffed up in most of my videos. Not as bad as yours, just sneezing and runny nose. I wear a respirator now.
Before recording video---blow yer nose!
Stave Master. Hmmm. Unfortunate.
Mike Lucey why is that unfortunate?
People on the internet are bizarre