My father and I are both building bows for a Lord of the Rings Archry Tournament for next year. We are making Lothlorien bows like the ones the elves used in the battle of helm's deep in the Two Towers movie. These bows look Asian in origin and are very tall as you can tell by the third picture. These "double recurves" are beautiful, but we are a bit stumped in where to begin. We think we will be using osage orange or yew depending on what we can get ahold of and afford. Someone (who we can no longer contact) made one of these using 6 layers of wood. We would like to try and avoid making this too complicated by not using bone or sinew in the construction; however, we want these be excellent quality shooting bows. We are also willing to use bamboo laminations. Someone made some similiar using bamboo that looks almost like the bow we want. They claim that they are wonderfully strong, tall and very fast when shooting arrows. I know they used hardwood, then a stablized core of bamboo and then a hardwood again. I was just wondering if anyone else had similar advice on what to do. But thank you all the same for your opinions.
The South Indian
Beloved bow of the gods of India in classic double recurve design. At 70" long, the bow is made with bamboo facings over an inner core of multiple square bamboo laminations and hardwood on the edges. Rounded at the riser to about 1" in diameter, wrapped in sting-ray skin or leather. Unique flared limb tips and hand-rubber finish. These bows can be made for a draw up to 35". Shot directly off either the right or left hand, these bows are smooth as silk. Rare smoked and naturally figured bamboos also available in the limbs and well as Japanese urushi finishes.
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Well we would like to know if anyone knows some good suppliers for bamboo facings and such online or in businesses located in America. Also any tips of working with bamboo is welcome too! Any help or knowledge is much appreciated.
ALso, we like the decorative ends of the bow, but the builder of the darker replica bow complained about handshock. Anyway to get the right shape and decoration at the end of the bow but decrease the handshock
Can anyone make suggestions, opinions or thoughts about layers and types of wood, recommended bow strings and particular ways to attach the strings for these kinds of bows, tools, process of building these types of bows or anything helpful. We are using the traditional bowyer's bible series as a guide but we would like more of people's helpful opinions to guide us. Thank you so much!!!
