How to Chase a Ring on an Osage Stave 

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. :)

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!

Thank you for making this video

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 ?

Thank you for your great Contributions. I would like to know how long it takes a 3 inch Osage Stave to dry.

Great video, thanks for sharing! You seal the back with what ...?

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?

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!

Easy on the Yew comment Sir, haha!

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?

Your scraper was what and the design of your scraper.

How do you sharpen your scrapers?

I want some identifies indian boow wood tree but I don't like bomboo bow

1/16 on your 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

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$&@

Before recording video---blow yer nose!

Stave Master. Hmmm. Unfortunate.