Would like too see pics of your spliced billet's and or any tips on how to do them.?....I have some b grade Osage billets and looking too start project soon..thank you.......jeff\snake...

Glenn St. Charles book, "Billets to Bows" shows you how. RKK

I have very little bow-length Osage. I make a lot of take-downs and like them very much. I use round seamless steel tube. They take down like a jointed fishing pole.

This one has made it a long time. It’s pretty sloppy on the outside but is “epoxy tight” inside. This bow is 65# and the handle section made it for a few thousand shots. The top limb didn’t though, haha!!

Ken, that's the style I'm looking for....did you use a hand saw or band saw.?...i remember an article in TBA or PA mag on this very subject and remember the guy introducing deflex reflex into his osage selfbows bows...?

When it's time to glue them together, you can glue them up straight, or angled to create a handle that sets forward or back. But the key is to make all cuts so they follow the same plumb line and fit as tight as possible.

In order to keep all mating cuts in the same plane, or plumb line, I flatten the bottom of the billet so it will sit on the bandsaw table without rocking or rolling one way or the other.

If that's not possible because of the shape or size of the billet, I have a short piece of 3" iron angle to which the billet is clamped, overhanging enough to cut the splice without running the angle iron into the saw blade, and then the angle iron sits flat on the bandsaw. All cuts will be perfectly straight up and down for their full length... all you have to do is accurately follow the line.

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