orcbow

[luke the drifter]

is there a detailed set of instructions for building one like the one from LOTR?  i would almost be willing to pay for a set.  i need a project that would require patience and concentration for a while.
i love the sounds it makes.  sounds like it would break. 

[Dictionary]

Here's a vid im sure you've probably already seen. Maybe you can base it on this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9regBz2cQQ

[Weylin]

Ha, most of us are trying to make our bows quieter. I take it you're not a hunter. 

[killir duck]

Ha, most of us are trying to make our bows quieter. I take it you're not a hunter. 

  hahaha my thoughts exactly but it would be cool to know how they did that, computer editing perhaps?

[k-hat]

ya it always cracks me up when i watch movies and it seems they ALWAYS have some kind of creaking noise when a bow is drawn. If they wanna be realistic, the archer should be flinching every time he draws.  Of course i guess orcs were expendable and were too dumb to be bowyers so maybe they didn't care

[kevinsmith5]

I don't guess it's to big a deal if your bow is a little creaky when you're surrounded by 10,000 screaming orcs....

[Tom Leemans]

LOL Kevin! Keep something solid behind you and shoot everything in front of you!

[kevinsmith5]

One does tend to doubt that archers who fired from amazed formations at massed formations worried about noise from the bow. A warbow and a hunting bow are two very different things.

[loefflerchuck]

You will get that sound by making a bend through the handle bow and putting a handle section on the belly that is not glued, only wrapped with sinew or rawhide....

[soy]

J dub was commenting a while back about a bow that made a creaky saddle sound in jest... his dreams may have came true

[PatM]

Stack a couple of layers of wood and put some dry chrometanned leather between and lash the two layers together. That will creak nicely.

[skyarrow]

Here you go bud thi is the guys website from the vid it has a some what of a build along on the creaking bow
https://sites.google.com/site/orcbowworld/my-first-orcbow

[BowEd]

Remember that creaking noise old Shwartzenpickles' bow made to kill the predator in the Predator movie?

[skyarrow]

Heck yeah i do iv always wanted to make that bow iv read that it actually was a working bow