Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: dragonman on January 10, 2016, 09:24:21 am
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Hello PA Bowyers, Greeting from wet Wales. It has rained here everyday for the last 2 months. Just managed to photograph a new bow between the downpours.
This is another ancient graveyard yew bow made from a 4" diameter branch.With only a drawknife ,axe and scraper.
It is 64" ntn. 60lbs @ 27". Slight recurves induced with steam, but they mosty pulled out. The belly was gently heat treated, but not much.. Would like to have got the outer limbs bending slightly more, but 2 largish knots in the one limb made this difficult, so settled for how it is now.
To my pleasant suprise, this bow shoots almost on a par with a boo backed ipe. Much faster than the recent ELB bow I posted....not sure if that is because of the design or the wood. They where from different trees. and ideas on this welcome!!
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heres a few more pics. The runes say ULLR , this is the name of the old Nordic Bow God, whose blessings I invoked to empower this bow. The bird is a raven....one of Odins ravens.
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Beautiful bow!i think the design coupled with yews light mass and the tiller spells for a speedy arrow!Certainly one of nicest bows posted lately,an yes I admit my bias for that design(my favorite).
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Sweet... :)
Nice feature knot too.
I think the shorter primitive designs are a tad faster than an ELB design, also more compact for field shooting,
and that ELB tends to be a tad smoother and more forgiving to shoot and comes into it's own at the heavier wright and longer draws... mind that's just my gut feel.
Del
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Nice one!!! Oughta be a shooter by the looks of it from here :)
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That's a beauty. The back, resting, braced and drawn profiles all look excellent to me. I've never attempted that design or have I ever made a yew bow to date but I sure don't see anything at fault in this one of yours, very nice bow.
Looks to be mostly sapwood in the pics., is it?
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Thanks for the kind words.
Badly Bent. no its actualy mostly heartwood!. Because the stave was only 4" wide, I decrowned it, losing most of the sapwood except on the upper corners, there is practically no sapwood left down the centre of the back,and the heartwood starts showing thru. its all on the upper corners and edges.
Del, thats my feelings and observations too!!
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Really like it, Dragonman.
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Thats a looker for sure, thats one of my favorite designs as they are fast and smooth
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Nice looking bow dragonman
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Good job!
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really nice work, looks very smooth.
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Looks good to me, nice Job, Hans
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Love it! Nicely done all the way around. Plus it's my favorite bow design as well.
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Very well done, in every aspect
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Really nice looking bow. Very nice work. :)
Pappy
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Nice work Dragonman! A very elegant bow.
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That's a very nice bow Mr. dragon! Like it very much, also one of my faverite designs - but cannot see why you call it a Holmie.
Oh, and I like your cap!
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Simsom.....thanks !!thats my new cap, put it on specialy!! 8)......is it not a Holmguaard design???...(or however you spell it ???)
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Really sweet bow - had a whole dry day here, didn't know what to do with myself ;) - but do you have the levers bending a little??
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Great job on that bow, I like the outer limbs stiff. Looks like a serious shooter.
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Love this bow. Great job
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Just. To be picky it looks more like a Horsen fjord/mollegebet to me,all the same beautiful execution!for the guys that havn't tried this design i'm sure after the first shot you will say wow!
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Yes. The holmgaard had more of a pyramid. Profile.
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thanks everyone for looking and your appreciation.
Thanks Bushboy and Simpson for putting me right about the name of this design. I Always get the holmgaard and mollegabet designs mixed up. I wonder which is the more efffective design?
Dave
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Naais work man! I really like the raven logo too. Wouldn't change a bit to it!