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Offline ksnow

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Finished ash flatbow
« on: May 09, 2013, 12:33:14 pm »
Here is another bow I finished up recently.  I usually wait to get a couple to put finish on at a time.  This one is from an ash board, about 71" long, unbraced.  It is a wide, flat style, modeled after the mesolithic flatbows of Europe.  It pulls 54# at 26".  Tiller critiques always welcome.  The design on the upper limb is a stone circle in Cornwall called the Nine Maidens (among other things).

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Offline JeremiahVires

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Re: Finished ash flatbow
« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2013, 12:36:24 pm »
Perfect tiller!
Looks great too.
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Offline bushboy

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Re: Finished ash flatbow
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2013, 05:08:43 pm »
Nice job!good on ya.
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Offline dragonman

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Re: Finished ash flatbow
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2013, 05:15:09 pm »
very nice bow, the tiller looks good to me...ash makes a good bow when its long and wide,,,,, by the way,I've been to that stone circle
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Offline DuBois

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Re: Finished ash flatbow
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2013, 05:30:08 pm »
Man, ya know  really like that. I will be trying to go to more long straight bows next and that is just what I would hope to make. Nice job.
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Offline ksnow

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Re: Finished ash flatbow
« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2013, 07:17:17 pm »
This bow was a pleasure to make, and shoots just as nice.  Thanks for the compliments.  I always try to look for some sort of historical inspiration before I make a bow, and then use that in the name.

Kyle
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Offline Carson (CMB)

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Re: Finished ash flatbow
« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2013, 07:28:02 pm »
Nice work.  I like the way ash works, looks and shoots!  Nicely done.
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Offline ksnow

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Re: Finished ash flatbow
« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2013, 07:30:29 pm »
Yes, ash works very nice.  After making two ash bows, I switched to the hickory one in my other thread, and man, that hickory is hard compared to ash.  Ash also finishes beautifully.

Kyle
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Offline Markus

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Re: Finished ash flatbow
« Reply #8 on: May 09, 2013, 07:31:03 pm »
Very nice. Markus
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Offline Thesquirrelslinger

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Re: Finished ash flatbow
« Reply #9 on: May 09, 2013, 10:07:13 pm »
Can a person make a LONG, semi-narrow ash bow?
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Re: Finished ash flatbow
« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2013, 06:46:42 am »
Very nice bow. :)
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Offline CaptainBeaky

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Re: Finished ash flatbow
« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2013, 07:02:39 am »
Nice work - that's come up beautifully stripey :)
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Offline lesken2011

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Re: Finished ash flatbow
« Reply #12 on: May 10, 2013, 08:50:16 am »
SWEET!! :)
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Offline ssgtchad

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Re: Finished ash flatbow
« Reply #13 on: May 10, 2013, 11:14:00 am »
Nicely done sir nicely done! How does it shoot?
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Offline ksnow

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Re: Finished ash flatbow
« Reply #14 on: May 10, 2013, 11:28:35 am »
It shoots well, not quite hand shock, but not as smooth and sweet as a narrower bow.  I am more accurate with it than I am its sister, which will be posted in the near future.  I would definitely make one again, there are a few maple trees in the yard asking to become bows.
Squirrel, yes, there can be long and narrow, the sister to this one, mentioned above, is narrower, used the idea of an english longbow for the style.  I'll post stats with that one.

Kyle
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