The osage Bow Part 4

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morning guys Dave Canterbury at the Pathfinder school back out here in the woods with our Osage stave we've been working on now we've got a little bit of a problem with this stave kind of popped up last night that we're gonna have to work through today and bear in mind if stave is probably I'm guessing somewhere in the neighborhood of 70 inches long and it doesn't have to be that long and that's a good thing for us right now because what we've got is we've got a problem going to show you this limb I don't know if you can see this very well excuse me wrong limb you should be able to see how that limbs got a downturn in it you see how that limb is twisted off this way we got to get rid of that we can't have that on there so we're gonna have to cut that limb off back into here which means we're gonna lose a good three inches four inches on this side of the bow and we've got to cut in the same amount off this side of the bow so we're gonna end up with about a 60 inch bow which is really pushing the envelope but because we've got an Osage stave we'll be able to get away with that we'll have a nice shorter hunting bow that's real stealthy in the woods after that so that's okay that's not breaking my heart Eddy so that's what we're going to work on this morning the first thing we're going to do is get these cut off even it's a new knock points cut in two and then we're gonna start taking more material off the belly of this bow because now it's going to be even more material enough to take off to get these limbs have been properly because it's going to be a shorter bow so we got some work to do and we have decided up and down on this bow this will be up and it just it's more comfortable that way there's already a little bit of an indention right here because of the way the wood bends okay now I've got these two pieces off of our limb on both ends and here I went back to work with the axe a little bit I was a little off my centerline on this side that I had drawn on my bow so I'm gonna kind of try to get back closer to that center line with this limb not take it back over and use the rasp on it I've also done a little bit of fitting on this limb with the axe because I know now I'm gonna have to get a lot thinner if these limbs because I massage they aren't in a half shorter it's going to take a lot less meat for these things to bend a lot less material on the limbs to get bend out of them so then we'll have a really really really strong bow let me tell you that but you're going to take a lot more meat off of it to get it to bend properly now because the limbs are shorter so I'm taking some meat off with the accident I'm gonna go back and dress it up with the rasp here a few minutes I want to show you guys something real quick on these uh string grooves on your bow because we got to cut new ones today so we had to cut this bow off I've got this bow pretty solid in this vise and I'm just gonna use a rat tail file and we've got from our common man kit and going a forty-five degree angle I don't know about a quarter of an inch down from the top and you start it slow [Music]

like I sound like my string crews out about a 45 degree angle and you want to cut that down into the wood to give it a place to grab but you're not really trying to finish it right now all you're trying to do is get it good good place for your string to hold while you're doing your tillering [Applause]

it takes a few minutes to do this but [Applause]

you want to finish them up a lot nicer later anyway alright now you're just trying to give your place he restoring a place to grab while you're doing your initial Tillery then I'll come over on the other side and do exactly the same thing at exactly the same angle

I'll start it slow look at it to make sure I've got it even with the other one make sure I've got the same angle the same amount of space from the tip of the bow like I said I'll shape those later into something more desirable on the tip but for right now all I'm trying to do is get it where I wanted I got to jam it in this vise the right way so I get a good hold on it cuz I really don't want it moving too much while I'm doing this [Applause]

looking at it all the time just to make sure they're the same once I'm pretty convinced that they're pretty close to the same and I can go after it a little bit more but all I really need to groove in there rat string to hold on to and I'll do this in both ends then we're pretty close to getting this thing on the tillering tree you can see what that string groove looks like when it's done like it says nothing fancy just something to hold my string I just want to make sure that it's deep enough for the string is set down in it [Applause]

and I'll finish that nicer later when I'm finishing above but for right now that'll DG is fine now while I'm working on this grief and I got it down in the vise like I said I'm not really trying to finish anything right now I'm gonna take my pathfinder knife and just kind of bullnose this a little bit all the way around just so I don't have an edge up there when I'm trying to string it on string this bow and I'll just do that on both sides with my Pathfinder knife this thing's plenty sharp I don't have to worry about having to jerk it and cut myself I'm just trying to round this edge off a little bit and not get too excited about it just like that for the moment

and then to show you where we're at over here on this map these limbs right now you can see I'm starting to get some good bend in them now not too bad I need to take a little bit more off that tip right there if that reflex areas bending really good the suicide

a little reflex right there might need to have a little bit off the back of that - she's bending a lot better now you back over on this rafts for a few minutes see what we can do about those two spots all right guys take a look at this bad boy we can't I'll show you the best I got this thing's nowhere near close yet I cannot get that the full draw even with a slack string and you can see how thin those limbs are already on that Osage its tillering out perfect but the wood is just so hard how limbs have to be thinner so we're gonna have to take more material off okay now because these limbs are getting so thin now all I'm doing now is doing fish bone shavings at about a 45 degree angle hang on how I got a hip gets Bo in here but basically on a 45 degree angle just right up the bub just like this I'll have a jam to the right tree for this camera angle though here we go and I'm taking the same amount off basically off of both my limbs and like I said you just had a 45 I'm just going up this direction just like this so I'm going up on the bow from both sides rounding it over to get that eye shape we talked about because now my tiller is pretty good and I haven't even put this on a Tillery tree yet I've got a feeling that I'm not gonna be able to use the tiller tree we use the other day because it's made out of nails and just bows too strong it's gonna pull it Bend those nails right over this bow right now it's probably sitting at about 95 or 100 pounds I want to get it down to 60 65 but I'm trying to take even amounts of material off throughout the limb now because my tiller looked pretty good and I'm kind of cupping it on the one side of my hand just like this and just rolling it over just like this all the way up and down the limb being careful not to take any more material off of one area than another all the way up to the fade and I'm doing that on both sides and I'm going to turn the bow around and do the other side yeah we're really looking good now yeah now at this point in the game is critical any material we take off of this I've got it really nice floor color over here

and I'm not gonna be able to put this on a tree because it's gonna Bend those nails so I'm gonna have to tell her this my hand and my eye you'll be able to do that when you get used to this stuff so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to put a paracord Tillery string on here I try to get a couple inches of brace height and exercise this bow a little bit and kind of look at the tiller as I go

that's paracord tailoring string on here and try to get a little bit of brace on I'm gonna use a step three method on this and just put my ankle down the bow and put the handle of bow right in the crotch of my knee basically and I'm gonna pull the upper limb toward me I'm gonna put the cord in it I'm gonna wrap it over one time just like this so that I can use that to draw it tight and I'm gonna try to get myself a little bit of brace light here and see I'll relax a little bit then I'll pull a little more into it I'll get what I want we got one strong bugger boys I tell you that let it relax for a minute does that parent cords going to stretch relax again put a little tired hold it for a minute see it's pinching my leg pretty good right here so not only it to be yet and I just let it slip a little bit there and this is just stressing the limbs a little bit it's stretching my chillin string at the same time as I go through this exercise and I'm just kind of letting it sit stretch out a bit as I go and this may take me two or three minutes to get this strung up to a brace height at 3 or 4 inches we're trying to get to where it's not pinching my leg anymore when I get it to that point then I'll be pretty happy with that much brace I start off with you just got to take your time be patient with it let the string stretch let the bow give still pretty tight on my leg not pitching it nears bad it's still a little tight I'll reposition myself on the bow and hold on to it while I let go a little bit tighter okay

that's not bad now let's just tie this up a couple of times and a self-releasing type not here okay our string stretched out again back to zero Bray site but I want to start exercising these limbs a little bit so I'm just going to draw up and down on it and exercise those limbs we didn't broke in a little bit of time this is a slow process not something that you're going to do in four hours like two hours like a bush bow or a survival bow this is a forty fifty hour project looking at your children while you're doing this well I've seen as I got more been here that I've got here which tells me that this limb he's a little more taken out of it and that's fine what I'm done doing this I'll take some more off I'll probably do this 25 or 30 times okay guys at this point now I know my tiller is good but my parentage is too high obviously so now I'm not gonna mess with the bow vise anymore now I'm just taking small amounts of material off the size of these limbs there's a lot of time checking my little children all the time as I do that and seeing that much Bend I get make sure and get an even amount of Bin's throughout the limb okay guys I got about another four inches of prey site here and I just kind of want to show where we're at been out here about four hours at this there's our profile of our both strong pretty even tilling maybe a little bit more fanned here than here now what I want to show you is I want to show you this is even at this forest Bray site this I'm telling you this is freaking 80 pounds of draw probably I cannot hardly get this thing back to my lip and keep my arm straight we're talking I mean you can see my arm shaking this is this is some huge draw weight on this bow step but now I've got strong I can take my rasp on the inside that's turning it shave some of that out and that's what we're gonna do tomorrow so this is going to be part four of the ush bow I hope you guys are enjoying this series I'm really enjoying making this bow with you tomorrow will shape our handle a little bit more I'll shape our knocks a little bit more we'll try to get this thing strung to a brace height with a real bow string instead of just a tillering string like a piece of paracord but get back a little bit here maybe you can see the bow just a little bit better as far as the tiller goes not bad and it is heavy and I mean it is heavy I couldn't shoot that more than a few times and I wearing my shoulder out that thing's got to be 80 90 pounds 80 pounds anyway for sure they're like she was 60 65 a lot and this boasts a lot heavier than that so with that said I'm Dave Canberra at the Pathfinder school I appreciate your views I appreciate your support thank you for joining me for another video and I'll be back tomorrow we'll try to get this bow a little bit more of a finished State