Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Frode on December 08, 2010, 07:21:16 pm
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Well, here is the bow you have all so graciously been helping me with, lately! It's 75 1/4" tip to tip, 74" ntn, 30# @ 24", ash. Working limbs 1 3/4" wide, and lever tips about 5/16" wide.
It's my first go at ash, and it was done about 90% with some kind of blade, be it draw knife, plane, or spokeshave. Mostly spokeshave, the low angle variety. A little rasping around the grip, some filing for the nocks, small gouges for the fade reliefs, and sand paper (OK, I got tired a couple of times and broke out the palm sander).
I regard the thing as an experiment, meant to be whittled on, and altered, but, ya gotta take 'em out shooting every now or then, so here goes!
Oh, almost forgot, it has a linen backing, just in case ;).
Thanks for all the advice and help, and thanks for looking!
Frode
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Very nice Frode.....the bends are "all Mollegabet" and I really like your treatment of the lever fades.....very slick.
rich
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Thank you, Sir!
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Very nice.Molle's are slowly becoming my favorite bow.I got a chunk of Hickory thats calling but after the yew is done.
Thanks leroy
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Thanks, Stoker! There is something about that style that hooks folks in, isn't there?
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Nice bow, like the man says -typical mollegabet lines, I like those long thin tips, should shoot well?
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Very cool I like em long just ask Pappy.
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very nice Bow...I like the Coped out Fades...nice touch....
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Thank you all for the kind words!
Actually, I just got back in from shooting for an hour and a half or so, and I'm pleased to report that it does indeed shoot well! Much snappier than I'd have expected for a 30# bow! I don't know how much of that is the ash, or the thin levers, or ???, but I'll take it! And, looking at the pics, it almost looks like the levers are just barely bending? I don't know if that has an effect, either.
Thanks again!
Frode
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Well done Frode! 8)
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Nice bow Frode:-). Fades to the lever are awsome (gotta try that trick out).
30#@24" on a 75" bow, linen backed...now thats keeping it safe;-). I suspect that you can take atleast 6" off each lever and still have margin for some overdraw....excellent idea to make an overbuild Molly as an ongoing project of lever length experimentation (I assume that is what you mean by "whittled on, and altered")....I lurcked on Ken75 thread too, and if I can find a suitable piece of wood ill walk the same parth as you two:-).
Frode...is that danish?
Cheers
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Oh yeah, I love that scoopy lam fade, real piece of art.
Del
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Good looking bow,tiller looks great and I will have to say you got her slick,nice work. :)
Pappy
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Good looking bow! As others have said, I like how you grooved the shoulders--never seen that before. Nice handle design too.
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Very good looking tiller, your handle looks very thin - how wide is it? Looks comfortable.
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Looks like a good one.
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Well thank you all ;D!
@Parnell; Funny you should ask, it seems a bit thick to me, heh. The grip is 1 1/8" side to side by 1 1/2" front to back, in the lowest part of the curve. I was trying to emulate the handle area NOMADIC PIRATE put on some of his bows. I have a way to go yet, but it is comfortable.
@Holton; That is correct! I expect the levers to be shortened, re-tipped, and who knows what, before it's over.
The fade sculpts were a whim inspired by several days looking over spoon carving sites, as if I needed another way to cut myself. Glad you like them!
Thanks,
Frode
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Hey Frode that is a beauty,I to like that coped out tip,looks like some beautiful grain on that ash-Hammertime
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Thank you!
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Frode...is that danish?
Sorry, Holten, somehow I missed answering that part. Yes, it's Danish, or at least Danish-ish. It's a Scandinavian name that goes at least back to 600 CE or so, and apparently still common today.
Frode