Sweet Jesus fellas, that,s more than 3 years ago.
DB, it was indeed a fully quartersawn red elm, and an outstanding piece of it at that. I really am reluctant to bring it up again because of all the crap I got over the first 10 of these or so. It all started as an experiment because I knew that Vikings carved most all of their wood objects from long boats and Meeting halls all the way down to furniture, chests, and ornaments, as well as their ski's......that got me to wondering if ya can carve a ski (which flex's violently like a bow) then why not a bow.
At first a little less than 1/2 the bows survived, and then I caught on to how I needed to do the carving and it got a lot better. I did this carving with "ball headed" ruby carvers mounted in a wood handle instead of the Foredom, rotary tool. You cant go too deep (shallow relief) and don't even think about leaving any sharp lines, edges or margins. By the way, this bow is still in my brother's possession and has been shot nearly every day for 2 or so years (he used it for therapy from a very bad disease ) it is now retired but still in shooting condition.
I don't hardly make or post any more Mollegabets' because my interest was on behalf of a good friend who is of Viking decent and now that he has a bunch of them, I have been concentrating on my Native American bows, even the shooting style. The main hold over is being real well versed in Elder Futhark.
rich
