I'll keep a build along in mind when they're ready. I've got the ends sealed and they'll be laying up in the garage for at least several months, to cure properly, before I start whittling on them. I couldprobably force dry them a little quicker but with osage you run the risk of it checking and splittingmore if you trycuring it too quickly. Inmiddle Tennessee, decently straight osage like that is quite a find, so I'd rather wait awhile thanriskdamaging it.
Wow now you guys are speaking a different language.........You had me all the way up til you started talking latewood and staves and rings . All I heard was waawaaaaaaaa waawaa waaawa waaaaaaaaaaaawaaa (like Charlie Brown's teacher LOL)
I gather that's a good find and will make some great selfbows and that's all i want to know, I have enough stinkin' hobbies!
But I know enough to tell when someone is excited about a cool find so congrats!
The late wood isthe nice dark orange rings. It's dense andvery hard stuff. Theearly growth is the thinner, lighter, whitish looking rings. It's moreporous and not as hard or dense as the late wood. With osage bowwood,nice, fat late woodgrowth rings are a goodthing.