Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: ksnow on May 09, 2013, 12:33:14 pm
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Here is another bow I finished up recently. I usually wait to get a couple to put finish on at a time. This one is from an ash board, about 71" long, unbraced. It is a wide, flat style, modeled after the mesolithic flatbows of Europe. It pulls 54# at 26". Tiller critiques always welcome. The design on the upper limb is a stone circle in Cornwall called the Nine Maidens (among other things).
Kyle
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Perfect tiller!
Looks great too.
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Nice job!good on ya.
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very nice bow, the tiller looks good to me...ash makes a good bow when its long and wide,,,,, by the way,I've been to that stone circle
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Man, ya know really like that. I will be trying to go to more long straight bows next and that is just what I would hope to make. Nice job.
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This bow was a pleasure to make, and shoots just as nice. Thanks for the compliments. I always try to look for some sort of historical inspiration before I make a bow, and then use that in the name.
Kyle
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Nice work. I like the way ash works, looks and shoots! Nicely done.
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Yes, ash works very nice. After making two ash bows, I switched to the hickory one in my other thread, and man, that hickory is hard compared to ash. Ash also finishes beautifully.
Kyle
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Very nice. Markus
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Can a person make a LONG, semi-narrow ash bow?
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Very nice bow. :)
Pappy
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Nice work - that's come up beautifully stripey :)
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SWEET!! :)
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Nicely done sir nicely done! How does it shoot?
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It shoots well, not quite hand shock, but not as smooth and sweet as a narrower bow. I am more accurate with it than I am its sister, which will be posted in the near future. I would definitely make one again, there are a few maple trees in the yard asking to become bows.
Squirrel, yes, there can be long and narrow, the sister to this one, mentioned above, is narrower, used the idea of an english longbow for the style. I'll post stats with that one.
Kyle
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Nice bow.
Ash can be short and narrow too :)
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It shoots well, not quite hand shock, but not as smooth and sweet as a narrower bow. I am more accurate with it than I am its sister, which will be posted in the near future. I would definitely make one again, there are a few maple trees in the yard asking to become bows.
Squirrel, yes, there can be long and narrow, the sister to this one, mentioned above, is narrower, used the idea of an english longbow for the style. I'll post stats with that one.
Kyle
I'm looking forward to seeing the sister....hope she's hot >:D