selfbow by definition

[mullet]

A bow made all by yourself?

[PlanB]

What's a self arrow? 

[Pat B]

Same, single shaft with no foreshaft or footing.

[PlanB]

So self on anything means self-same material, made "all of a piece".

Like the difference between a plank countertop and a butcher-block countertop.

Or a dugout log canoe and a birchbark canoe.

[le0n]

So self on anything means self-same material, made "all of a piece".

Like the difference between a plank countertop and a butcher-block countertop.

Or a dugout log canoe and a birchbark canoe.

Or a self made man and Frankenstein.

fixed

[PlanB]

 

[riverrat]

"A selfbow is a selfbow is a self bow is a selfbow - nothing else" and we have a winner! Tony

[Selfbowman]

Pop corn almost finished. Is a long River Cain with string on it and a hook  considered a self Pole? . That's what my guide in Africa called his Cain pole. Arvin

[George Tsoukalas]

I agree. One piece of wood or 2 pieces spiced at the handle.

A self-nock is one piece of wood with a wrapping. If you reinforce the nock you don't have a self-nock you have...wait for it...

a reinforced nock.

Jawge

[PatM]

Isn't wrapping a reinforcement? 

[avcase]

Self bows are made from a single piece of bamboo, or bamboo spliced at the handle. What about those made from an un-backed horn spliced at the center?  A more general definition could be "a bow made from a single natural organic material"

[DC]

I think a selfbow is a bow made from one piece of wood, period. BUT, we primitive archers being the magnanimous people that we are allow some superior craftsman a little leeway

[George Tsoukalas]

PatM, yes, it is. But using one doesn't preclude the nock being a self-nock.

I was talking about a spline (reinforcement) placed with the grain at the nock and the nock cut at right angles to it.

Jawge

[blackhawk]

Meh...make it and define it how you want to and have fun. Who cares what someone else thinks it is or isnt. Its just some letters put together open to anyones interpretation/opinion.