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Title: English Long Bow
Post by: african man on March 31, 2009, 12:58:29 pm

ELB  45# @ 28"   71" ntn

Iron wood (olea capensis) backed with hickory ,  wildebees (gnu) tips , bone arrow rest
Made this bow for my Dad ,he's 79 and been shooting all his life. I tried to convince him to take one of my 110# war bows , but he wanted something that was not going to strain him too much ....  ;D


(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk87/africanman2/ELB/DSC_2156600.jpg)
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk87/africanman2/ELB/DSC_2145600.jpg)
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk87/africanman2/ELB/DSC_2158600.jpg)
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk87/africanman2/ELB/DSC_2146600.jpg)
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk87/africanman2/ELB/DSC_2147600.jpg)
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk87/africanman2/ELB/DSC_2151600.jpg)
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk87/africanman2/ELB/DSC_2148600.jpg)
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk87/africanman2/ELB/DSC_2155600.jpg)

Chris   ;)

Title: Re: English Long Bow
Post by: Diligence on March 31, 2009, 01:23:51 pm

great looking bow...and I like that fletching too!

Title: Re: English Long Bow
Post by: DanaM on March 31, 2009, 02:07:55 pm

That is very elegant looking, very nicely done :)

Title: Re: English Long Bow
Post by: Hillbilly on March 31, 2009, 02:20:03 pm

Good looking bow, really like those wildebeest tips, too. I didn't figure hickory would be easy to find in Africa.

Title: Re: English Long Bow
Post by: JustAim on March 31, 2009, 04:28:12 pm

Nice lookin' bow! Great job!

Title: Re: English Long Bow
Post by: Stonedog on March 31, 2009, 05:07:18 pm

Very nice, my favorite bows are ELBs!

Title: Re: English Long Bow
Post by: Aosda on March 31, 2009, 05:11:39 pm

Sharp looking ELB.  I like the colors in the grain on it.

StoneDog,

What's your opinion on WoT #12-13?

Title: Re: English Long Bow
Post by: nickf on March 31, 2009, 05:20:58 pm

that's a beautyfull bow Chris! I love it ;)
would you mind sharing some of your warbows in the ewb forum? I love warbows, both making and shooting them :)

Nick

Title: Re: English Long Bow
Post by: african man on March 31, 2009, 10:43:53 pm

Thanks Guys   :)

Hillbilly - Hickory is not easy to get here , espesialy bow quality ... !!!!!
I get myn'e from a local wood merchant who deals in rear woods , he gets in maybe every five years and I have to go through hundreds of boards to find maybe one or two that I can use, then I have to wait until his stock is finished before he gets in some more. Just had five bows break on me one after the other due to a bad batch of hickory that I have just bought ...  >:( >:( :'(
Trying to find a local wood that can work but haven't found anything that matches hickory yet

Xris  ;)

Title: Re: English Long Bow
Post by: Timo on March 31, 2009, 11:37:17 pm

I'd call that a bit of "class" very nice job. Tiller is top notch.

Title: Re: English Long Bow
Post by: burn em up chuck on April 01, 2009, 12:13:54 am

very,very nice. wonderful gesture

                                     chuck

Title: Re: English Long Bow
Post by: Sidewinder on April 01, 2009, 01:27:48 am

I agree with all of the above. Tiller is stellar. I have got to try an ELB one of these days.   Danny

Title: Re: English Long Bow
Post by: Pappy on April 01, 2009, 05:38:31 am

Beautiful work in all aspects.Very well done,your dad should love it. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: English Long Bow
Post by: Dean Marlow on April 01, 2009, 07:44:22 am

Beautiful bow. You did a great job on that one. I was wondering if the ironwood grows there or did you have to get it from a supplier. Dean

Title: Re: English Long Bow
Post by: african man on April 01, 2009, 11:43:48 am

Dean - The Iron wood (Olea capensis .subsp. macrocarpa) grows here and is one of the principal trees of the dry forests around this area, some of the last old wood coastal forests left in this country. They grow up to 120 ft . It is very dense 1.1 - 1.2 sg and is one of the woods I  use to replace Ipe , I want to only use indigenous woods in my bows , but as there is no info on our local woods it is just a matter of tryle and error, but slowly I'm getting there .... ???   I get most of my wood from a merchant , who cuts his own wood and knows what I'm looking for.

Xrix  ;)

 

Title: Re: English Long Bow
Post by: nickf on April 01, 2009, 01:58:38 pm

african man,

I've got the same problem; hickory is just very hard to get in the Netherlands, and very, very pricy. thanks to Jorik (darksoul) I found a good supplier of bamboo, wich may be even better in tensile strengths.

Nick

Title: Re: English Long Bow
Post by: Cooper on April 01, 2009, 02:25:26 pm

Hi Nick, here are two links to german bowyers.
They sell hickory as staves and as backing-slats.
Perhaps it is interesting for you.

http://www.gervase.de/index.php (http://www.gervase.de/index.php)
http://www.bombix.de/index.php (http://www.bombix.de/index.php)

@ african man: Very nice bow

Title: Re: English Long Bow
Post by: mole on April 01, 2009, 02:31:12 pm

That looks excellant.  Anyway that we could get a better shot of that interesting fletching?

John

Title: Re: English Long Bow
Post by: african man on April 01, 2009, 03:54:28 pm

Nickf - I'm starting with bamboo now but want to eventually use only indigenous woods   :-\

Mole - bottom arrow is the one in the pic , top two are a new set of six I've just finished
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk87/africanman2/arrows/DSC_2216600.jpg)

Chris   ;)