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Offline danlaw

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Bronze bow
« on: April 02, 2012, 04:06:00 am »
Has anybody tried making a bronze age metal bow? I was doing a little research and it looks like there was in fact such a thing. Thought is might be a really cool project.
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Offline Dauntless

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Re: Bronze bow
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2012, 10:09:35 am »
Where did you find information on such a bow?
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Offline Justin Snyder

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Re: Bronze bow
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2012, 12:20:26 pm »
I have read a little about it also. It turns out they were around long before the naysayers will admit that the technology was around. I have considered it, but it will have to wait until I have a lot more time to dedicate to the project. I have researched and found where I can get the raw materials (old abandoned mines) to make it from scratch if I ever get the time.
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: Bronze bow
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2012, 12:40:10 pm »
"I have researched and found where I can get the raw materials (old abandoned mines) to make it from scratch if I ever get the time. "

Now that is one heck of a project.
« Last Edit: April 02, 2012, 10:57:54 pm by toomanyknots »
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Offline Dauntless

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Re: Bronze bow
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2012, 02:11:53 pm »
Justin that sounds like an incredible project, please oh please take pictures.  How would such a bow be made anyways? Cast bronze in a mould, tiller with a file?
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Bronze bow
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2012, 04:04:27 pm »
I guess I'd be afraid of it blowing up on full draw.  Maybe for for safety the first attempt should be backed with aluminum foil. 
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Offline doulosparachristos

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Re: Bronze bow
« Reply #6 on: April 02, 2012, 05:28:06 pm »
well just make sure its not this hard to tiller! this guy obviously needs to be focusing on getting this baby to bend more toward the tips!
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Offline Buckeye Guy

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Re: Bronze bow
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2012, 05:34:33 pm »
I am not sure but so far my studies have led me to the term bronze bow to mean a exceptional bow and Iron bow to mean an exceptionally strong bow !
No examples of actual usable Bronze or Iron bows !
Kind of like the folks on here using sexy bow to mean curves and such !
But any way have fun whatever you try !
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Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Bronze bow
« Reply #8 on: April 02, 2012, 05:55:57 pm »
How about the wrought iron bows of India?  Those bad boys are anything but euphamistic, they are forged iron!
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Offline Buckeye Guy

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Re: Bronze bow
« Reply #9 on: April 02, 2012, 06:35:25 pm »
JW
There you go using those thousand dollar words again!
What did he say  >:D  ;D
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Offline fishfinder401

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Re: Bronze bow
« Reply #10 on: April 02, 2012, 09:15:24 pm »
Quote from: doulosparachristos on April 02, 2012, 05:28:06 pm
well just make sure its not this hard to tiller! this guy obviously needs to be focusing on getting this baby to bend more toward the tips!
hey, where did you get that picture of me tillering my latest bow ;) ;D
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Offline Weylin

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Re: Bronze bow
« Reply #11 on: April 02, 2012, 09:33:54 pm »
When I was working with John Strunk he told me about a steel bow that someone made a while back. He said it shot great until in blew at full draw and it killed someone standing nearby. They didn't make any more steel bows after that.  :-\
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Offline PatM

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Re: Bronze bow
« Reply #12 on: April 02, 2012, 10:28:32 pm »
 A Swedish company called Seefab made steel bows. The bows of india were steel, not iron.
 People do sometimes make crossbow prods from automobile leaf sprngs.
 
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Offline toomanyknots

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Re: Bronze bow
« Reply #13 on: April 02, 2012, 11:03:04 pm »
Quote from: Weylin on April 02, 2012, 09:33:54 pm
When I was working with John Strunk he told me about a steel bow that someone made a while back. He said it shot great until in blew at full draw and it killed someone standing nearby. They didn't make any more steel bows after that.  :-\

Holy crap.

Quote from: JW_Halverson on April 02, 2012, 05:55:57 pm
How about the wrought iron bows of India?  Those bad boys are anything but euphamistic, they are forged iron!

That's what I was thinking of initially. The couple pictures I have seen of one was absolutely beautiful with the decorations and details in had.
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"The way of heaven is like the bending of a bow-
 the upper part is pressed down,
 the lower part is raised up,
 the part that has too much is reduced,
 the part that has too little is increased."

- Tao Te Ching, 77, A new translation by Victor H. Mair

Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Bronze bow
« Reply #14 on: April 02, 2012, 11:23:14 pm »
I'd love to find one of those Indian bows, and it doesn;t even need all the lovely gold inlay detailing.  Just a shooter would please me.

Take that carp shooting with aluminum arrows during thunderstorms!
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