Gordon and Frank your awful defensive, why is that?
i don't know of any defence i made!!!!!!!!
can't find one that gordon made either!!!
i was trying to point out, that a good clear picture might be of help when it comes to BOM, and YOU, dana, jumped on me like crazy! i could not really see what could possibly be misunderstood in my post, but hey: may be i missed something, so i asked YOUR apology and took it back, you apologized to me right away, too, giving some rather strange explanations why you came across that harsh! - man, you still blow the same horn ever since!
it is not enough that i keep repeating that i didn't mean to offend anybody and nor does it help telling how great i think mechslasher's bow is, since unfortunately i mentioned his pic of the Grumley nock, that is so awfully out of focus! - dang, i could have named other similar examples as well but his bow was one of my favourits, along with ryan's (very dressed up with nice pictures, showing he's proud of what he did) and greg's (very plain with nice pictures showing the same) and gordon's (heck he deserved the win just for sharing his knowledge in this beautiful build-along!!!)
and also, dana, how do you know on what base i or anyone vote?? i don't even HAVE to look through the list since i have looked through each and every thread before it comes to BOM many times and saved many pictures to my computer. but i do go through the entire list anyway, since i want to make sure i have seen them all. i have a picturefile of almost everyone posting here because these pictures contain information. that's what i came her for in the first place; that's why i try to give something back by posting nice photos!
well, gussied up (ain't that supposed to be spellend with a 'p' ?) laminated bows are evident in europe since the late medieval.
laminated bamboo bows with curves worth the shiniest magazines we all oh so (seem to) like (the curves, of coarse , ...not the magazines) where a main weapon of the samurai worriers over 1000 years ago. these bows where pieces of art in any aspect!
2007 BOY winner chris glauben's double-curved bow was made using the same limb cross-section as well as the same (rope and wedges-) gluing technique (i use the same technique on all my laminated bows, too) chris' is a nice bow, not gussied at all; if you find the time, go have a look!
laminated hornbows, highly gussied (love that word, it's new for me! what's it mean??) with finest goatskin, painted and gold-plated are know from tutenchamun's tomb; that is more then 4000 years ago.
the laminated bow of the sami people of northern eurasia, made from compression pine and birch may go back far beyond that, whereas the oldest pictures of so-called characterbows - and i'm sure it is not enough to confirm that i really LOVE the many bows of that kind that i have seen on PA made by master bowyers such as northshore, pappy and gordon just to name a few) that i'm familiar with are from the early 20th century (yeah, 100 miles short way 100 years long time, heard it before, thanks).
in fact a swiss-found half-finished yew bow of the bodman type is considered by archaeologists to be purposely broken by the bowyer when he found an unexpected knot in the stave in the making process!
and, as gordon pointed out already: if you are out to collect points on BOM, the character bow sure is the way to go! ...and again it's most likely not enough for me to say that i KNOW it's probably also the hardest way!
i came up with that laminated purple heart bow with the fancy handle and tips on the very end of january; i really like the bow, but i did not think this girl's bow would have a chance against gordon's bow or even uwe's since we all know how much we are into curves over here (see above); that's why i voted for my own bow - together with the later owner's vote, that would make two...i thought!
yesterday on my drive home i had decided to change my vote for gordon's if it was still a tie when i get home because he had told me that he had voted for mine! but somebody else had changed mind and took back a vote from my bow, so gordon won! perfect!
i have respect for all of you bowyers making bows and posting them here, sharing knowledge and asking questions, but gentleman, what we discuss her is BOM, not brain surgery...
take this as the words from a german man, thank you,
frank (medicinewheel)
ps: mechslasher: i only know of original Grumley nocks carved out of the stave, never knew he had laminated these, too! but hey who am i to know 'bout that with my not even 4 years of archery experience over here in germany! i'm sure you will be so kind to update me and post a picture, right!?
