Extreme snakey bow?

[AndiE]

Hi

How is a bow like the one in the following link made?
http://www.traditional-archery.de/online/templatemedia/all_lang/resources/_wsb_570x380_IMG_4824.jpg
Do you need a stave with that shape or is it much bending and steaming?

Kind regards
Andi

[blackhawk]

A trees grain can grow that way..and you always follow the grain with selfbows. So you need to find a tree with grain like that.  Good luck

[paco664]

Ok that bow is uber cool looking but had to be a monster to tiller. .

Thanks for finding that

[vinemaplebows]

You can also make a fake snake bow, just draw your pattern out, and apply to stave, or board for that matter. Years back someone wrote a article for PA that was called the "fake snake" someone may have a back copy.

[Marc St Louis]

You can also make a fake snake bow, just draw your pattern out, and apply to stave, or board for that matter. Years back someone wrote a article for PA that was called the "fake snake" someone may have a back copy.

Doing that can also be hazardous to your health

[soy]

Wow that looks nice....find a snakey stave!!! Don't manufactur a snake it has to be in the grain

[vinemaplebows]

You can also make a fake snake bow, just draw your pattern out, and apply to stave, or board for that matter. Years back someone wrote a article for PA that was called the "fake snake" someone may have a back copy.

Doing that can also be hazardous to your health

Come on Marc, I seen it in the magazine.....

Volume 6 issue 1

[medicinewheel]

You can also make a fake snake bow, just draw your pattern out, and apply to stave, or board for that matter. Years back someone wrote a article for PA that was called the "fake snake" someone may have a back copy.

Doing that can also be hazardous to your health

Seen a bow made that way ...and moved back a little when the guy got ready to pull it...
It was a fake snake from a board. Seen  bows break for much less grain violation than that! (... "grain rape" might be the better word here)

[AndiE]

Hi

Hmm, I somehow still think that the last inches of the limbs are bended. The grip and fadeouts look like grown this way but the ends don't.

Kind regards
Andi

[Pappy]

Look in the bows of the months on here, several there with that much snake or more, and yes the need to grow that way or you will have to back with something very good to hold down the splinters. Mickey Lotts I think is the one you are talking about on making the fake snake, it was backed with pretty heavy rawhide, I saw it up close.
   Pappy

[AndiE]

Hi

But if i bend the thin parts of a finished bow there won't be any splinters. Or do I think wrong?

Kind regards
Andi

[Blaflair2]

I need a stave like that. They'll usually grow like that when they have to go around a lot of larg knots or branches. Ur gonna be broken hearted if u try bending a piece like that.

And I'm gonna agree with mark, the fake snake may lead to a fake eye.

[Pappy]

You might a little but where you thinned/narrowed the limb you have violated the longitudinal grain and when you try to bend it sideways  much it will splinter out from the side. JMO.
   Pappy

[Aaron H]

Sweet bow

[adb]

You can also make a fake snake bow, just draw your pattern out, and apply to stave, or board for that matter. Years back someone wrote a article for PA that was called the "fake snake" someone may have a back copy.

Doing that can also be hazardous to your health

Geez... I wouldn't do that either. If you want a snakey bow, you need a snakey stave. I make borad bows for their dimensional and esthetic perfection.