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today we're going to take a big hunk of

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wood like this

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and we're going to turn it in to this

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we're gonna be starting with an Osage

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orange stage that I cut in Alabama in

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2017.

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the first thing we have to do is remove

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all the sap wood and get down to the

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Heartwood

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this is not a delicate process you don't

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have to be careful just take your draw

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knife and start ripping that sapwood off

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[Music]

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to expose the Heartwood underneath we're

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going to need to pick out one single

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annual growth ring to follow and expose

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along the entire back as you can see

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right here

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now we're going to take this ring this

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one single ring and expose this all the

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way up and down the bow

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so that we have one layer that's going

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to add strength to the back of the bow

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which is going to be under tension when

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this bow is drawn and shot

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this process commonly called chasing a

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ring is something that's necessary with

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Osage and several other types of bow

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wood but it's certainly not necessary

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for all

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for example with species like Elm and

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Hickory you don't have to do this you

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simply would remove the bark and the

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cambium and there's your back directly

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underneath the bark

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[Music]

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now that we've got the bow back down to

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one single ring we're going to go ahead

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and lay out the back of this bow

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we're going to make this one about an

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inch and a half wide at the widest point

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we'll go ahead and take our draw knife

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and remove the wood down to this line

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this is going to result in a Stave

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that's got parallel sides up and down

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the stairs

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now we're going to go ahead and cut this

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Stave to length I'm going to make this

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bow a little longer than I would

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typically at 66 inches and we're going

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to put the handle right in the middle at

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33 we're going to go up two inches and

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down two inches for a four inch handle

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now we'll go ahead and draw out where

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the tips are going to taper down to

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about 3 8 inch Knocks

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the easiest way to do this is just

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describe a line right down the center of

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The Stave and then use a template that

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I've cut out from a piece of paper with

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holes punched in it to get around those

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curves and draw that taper for the tips

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this method comes in very handy with a

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Stave that's got snaky tips like this

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one the holes in the middle of this

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template act as Windows so that you can

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see your Center Line and keep the

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template centered in The Stave

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[Music]

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[Applause]

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so now that we've got the front to back

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profile pretty much cut out on this bow

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I'm going to go ahead and flip this to

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the side and draw some rough limb

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thicknesses to guide us when we're

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taking wood off the belly

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these are just preliminary lines and so

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we don't have to be super cautious when

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we take this wood off down to those

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lines

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a little later in the process I'm going

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to redraw these lines closer to what the

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actual limb thickness will be on the

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finished bow and then once we do that

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we're going to need to be pretty careful

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when we're following it so that we don't

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go below those lines

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all right

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[Music]

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this particular Stave isn't quite deep

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enough for the type of handle that I

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want to make and so I'm going to go

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ahead and flatten off the belly side of

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this and glue an extra block onto there

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that's going to give us enough material

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to shape the handle the way that I want

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it

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I'm going to glue this handle on with

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tight Bond 3 wood glue and then put it

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in the hot box overnight to cure we'll

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get back at this tomorrow

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so the glue on our handle piece cured

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out overnight now I'm going to go ahead

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and just take my farrier's rasp and

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match these two pieces up perfectly

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before drawing my Fades on here

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laughs

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now there's a lot of different ways to

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blend these Fades down into the limb

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personally I like a chisel and a hammer

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because it allows me to follow that

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curve very closely and it's actually

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pretty easy to do once you get the hang

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of it

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now one thing you should take note of if

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you're gonna try something like this is

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notice that this handle laminate

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actually Blends down into the original

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Stave and then into the working limb I

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don't have working limb going straight

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into this handle laminate if you try

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that your handle is going to pop off the

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belly of your bow you're gonna be pretty

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disappointed

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we're moving right along and this thing

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is starting to look like a bow now I'm

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going to go ahead and redraw those lines

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on the sides of the bow that are going

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to act as guides when we're thinning out

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the belly wood on this Stave the lines

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that I'm drawing now are approximately

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14 to 15 millimeters from the back of

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this bow the finished limb thickness on

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this bow is probably going to be about

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that same thickness and so when I take

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my draw knife and my rasp and I follow

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these lines I'm going to be very

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cautious not to go below them

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hahaha

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[Laughter]

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laughs

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so now that we've got the bulk of that

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wood off of this Stave and get it down

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to those lines this thing's going to

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start to bend a little bit and we can

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start floor tillering this bow

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ition to using the draw knife as a

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scraper to take off thin shavings of

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wood and start into the tillering

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process of this boat tillering if you're

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not familiar with bow building is the

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process of removing small amounts of

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wood from the belly side of the bow to

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make the limbs Bend evenly from side to

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side and then also on a nice smooth Arc

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over the entire bow

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and round out the corners on the belly

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and the back of this bow

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here we don't have any sharp edges

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hahaha

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[Laughter]

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so this Stave has some pretty crooked

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tips and so what I'm going to do is just

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put this thing on a reflex jig I'm going

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to add some reflex but at the same time

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I'm going to straighten these tips out a

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little bit so that they line up better

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with the bow now I'm just using a

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standard Wagner heat gun you can get

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from the local hardware store they

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probably cost 25 bucks

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you don't need anything special for

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heating and bending these bows

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[Applause]

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oh

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[Applause]

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foreign

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cools you can go ahead and take it off

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this form you can see that the tip is

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much straighter it's going to line up

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much better with that bow and we've got

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a little bit of reflex to improve the

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performance of this bow

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thank you

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so here I'm clamping this bow to a back

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set jig and I'm going to both add back

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set and heat treat this Osage bow

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one of the problems that you run into

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with building bows particularly in the

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southeastern United States where you've

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got high humidity is that when drying

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your staves outside you never get The

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Stave below about 12 moisture content

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personally I like my bow wood to be

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about six percent or less to have the

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best performing bows and the only way to

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get there is to either cure the staves

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inside or to heat treat the bows like

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I'm doing here

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the tool I'm using here is called a tile

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saw it fits onto your standard hacksaw

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frame and it comes in very handy for

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cutting in knots or string grooves

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once you've file the initial grooves

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with the tile saw the string grooves can

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be widened and smoothed with a hot nail

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or metal rod like you see here

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laughs

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now I'm just going to take the fine side

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of my Furious rasp or a file like I've

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got here and just shape these knocks up

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a little bit

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haha

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um

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now this thing's really starting to look

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like a bow during this floor tillering

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stage I'm just looking for areas of the

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limbs that are stiffer or weaker if I

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see any stiff areas I'm going to make

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note of that and remove wood from those

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areas if I see any weak areas I'm just

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going to Mark those and not remove any

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more wood than that until I need to

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this bow is almost to the point that I

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can get a string on it

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once you get the string on these bows

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the tillering process goes very very

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quickly

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so we're going to put this on the

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tillering rack and see what it looks

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like from a distance

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it's stiff right out here

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maybe a little bit right in here

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again remove wood from those stiff areas

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and skip over the wheat

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Slim's looking good this one's still a

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little stiff out here it's going to take

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a little more wood off right in here

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so this is that stiff part of that limb

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that was on the left

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[Music]

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[Music]

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[Music]

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so I just flip that bow around

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now the limb that was on this side is on

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this side I like to do that because it

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with these especially with these bows

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they have some character like this kind

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of twists and turns

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um

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they can look different if you switch

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them from one side to the other

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[Music]

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foreign

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foreign

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foreign

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shelf in my bow you don't have to do

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this this is personal preference now I

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get and I sometimes get flat for people

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for putting shelves in my self bows

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because they say that that's not a

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primitive uh design and they're

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absolutely right this is not a primitive

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design an arrow shelf cut out like this

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is a more modern design but I make my

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bows to be functional and to hunt with

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and personally for me I find that a bow

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like this for my style of shooting is

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just more accurate more practical for

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the type of hunting that I do so I put

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an arrow shift in if you don't want one

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leave it out

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thank you

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[Music]

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[Applause]

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foreign

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foreign

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thank you

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[Music]

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and finally sand everything down with

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multiple grits of sandpaper finish it

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off with tripolot steel wool and you're

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ready to put some sort of sealer on

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there now I've used several coats of

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tongue oil before I've used true oil gun

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stock finish which works great I've used

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Spar urethane which is pretty tough and

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durable and here I'm actually using

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Crest Lac Arrow dip because that's the

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only thing I had and it actually worked

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pretty doggone good

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so I get questions all the time about

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the Quivers that I use and these are

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made by Donnie Wilkerson of Creek Walker

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trading uh creekwalkertrading.com go

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over there give them a visit pick you up

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a quiver I don't get paid for saying

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that but Donnie makes a good quiver so

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there you go

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so if you made it all the way through

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this video you probably noticed that I

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use a very minimal tool kit on this

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build basically just a draw knife and a

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farrier's rasp the reason I did that is

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because I left all my bow building tools

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back up in Idaho where we live and we're

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down here in Florida for the next couple

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of months hadn't planned on making any

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bows but decided I wanted to make one so

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I went back old school the way that I

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used to make bows way back when I first

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started uploading videos to YouTube back

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to my basic toolkit so that just goes to

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show you that you don't have to have a

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bunch of stuff you just got to have a

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decent piece of wood

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very minimal tools and you can get

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started in Bow making but it turned out

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pretty good it's probably I haven't put

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it on a scale because I don't have a bow

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scale but it's probably in the high 50s

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at 29 it shoots really fast quick it's a

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it's a nice smooth drawing bow but uh

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the reason I built this is because I'm

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going on a hunt in Texas I think we're

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going to be hunting hogs in javelina and

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I'm gonna if uh if everything works out

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just right I'm gonna be using this bow

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and so if you keep tabs on the channel

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that is probably going to be the next

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video that you're gonna see

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South Texas Hogs and javelina with that

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with this Osage cell phone so appreciate

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you watching and see you on the next

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adventure

Description:

This week we're back with another traditional bow building video, building a snakey osage orange selfbow from start to finish. We'll start with a seasoned osage bow stave and use a draw knife to remove the bark. Then we chase a ring to get the bow's back to one single growth ring. I'm using a very basic bow building tool kit on this one - for the most part just a draw knife and farrier's rasp. I'll take you through laying the bow out, drawing the limb profiles, roughing out the bow and final tillering. When we're all done I strap on a bow quiver, load it up with arrows and head out to the pasture to shoot a few arrows. This longbow has slightly reflexed tips but you could use the same heat bending techniques to make a recurve bow if desired. For the most part this is an ASMR video but you should be able to see what's going on if you want to use this as a guide for building your own osage longbow. But i do have other videos on the channel that explain primitive bow making in depth. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel. We're uploading a new video each week that features one of the following topics: archery, bow hunting, bow building, survival skills, bushcraft, self reliance, primitive skills, primitive bows, hunting, camping, fishing, and a lot more! Surviving Alone by Clay Hayes - https://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Alone-Clay-Hayes/dp/B0B1BWFFV1?language=en_US Big thanks to our partners who help support these videos! Backpacks - https://kifaru.net/ Archery Gear - https://www.3riversarchery.com/ Tents & Tarps - https://seekoutside.com/ Binoculars - https://vortexoptics.com/ Arrow Shafts - https://surewoodshafts.com/ Clothing - https://www.firstlite.com/ You can also connect with me on my other media outlets! Website: https://www.twistedstave.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser Instagram: https://www.facebook.com/unsupportedbrowser Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/clayhayes

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