A great thing about osage is, it bends easy with heat. I took a stave a buddy of mine had, that had too tight of grain to make a selfbow with, and cut a slat out of it. It was pretty twisted, so I used a heat gun, c-clamp, and a vice and bent it straight. Its now has bamboo glued to it and will become a bamboo backed R-D long bow. Ive had some issues with the epoxy I used and a part of the bamboo is trying to delam, so once I finish injecting the delam spots and get it all tight agian, ill tiller her out.