Author Topic: "Set back handle" steam bending form/jig? Anybody use one ever or anything?  (Read 1295 times)

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Offline toomanyknots

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I kinda wanna make some set back handle bows out of single selfbow staves, so I figured I would ask everybody whats the best way to go about doing that. I guess splicing at the handle would probably be the easiest,... but I was wondering if anybody has every steamed some setback into a bow? I'm basically fiendin to make a cupid kinda bow out of a stave,  ;D. But I guess it probably would have to be kinda wider and not as thick at the handle as normal. Maybe built up at the handle on the back with sinew or something...
"The way of heaven is like the bending of a bow-
 the upper part is pressed down,
 the lower part is raised up,
 the part that has too much is reduced,
 the part that has too little is increased."

- Tao Te Ching, 77, A new translation by Victor H. Mair

Offline tattoo dave

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You talkin about a bow like this one?
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,28969.msg383783.html#msg383783

Lukas makes some amazing bows!!! Hope that helps.

Tattoo Dave
Rockford, MI