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setback-handle bows: let's see some pics
« on: August 05, 2009, 12:41:45 am »
hey, i'm thinking about making a setback-handle bow, by steaming or dry heat, with yew...anybody wanna show off theirs so i can copy????

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« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2009, 02:25:43 am »
 ??? What do u mean by setback-handles?

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« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2009, 02:44:59 am »
Here are some pics from someplace on the net of two different continental style (late Medieval I believe) Yew bows; this style bow is called the Bourgogne Bow.
Have fun copying!  ;D ;D ;D

Ps:The Antler tips are from the bow in the first picture.

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« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2009, 02:51:23 am »
Quote from: kylerprochaska on August 05, 2009, 02:25:43 am
??? What do u mean by setback-handles?

The handle is set back, or recurved from the back of the bow.
IMO a bow like the pictured Bourgogne Bow would be called 'double-curved' for the setback handle plus the recurved tips.
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« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2009, 05:46:39 am »
Got no pictures but them are some beautiful bows and tips. :)
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Offline Keenan

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« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2009, 12:23:08 pm »
Very nice bows Frank.  I've always refered to these types as "gull wing"  Hear is one of mine. I've done a couple of these and not sure that I care for the design. Though I like the looks, I've found that the handle being set back tends to give more wrist slap unless braced higher.



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« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2009, 12:30:41 pm »
(These bows pictured are museum pieces just to make sure).

Isn't 'gull-winged' a set-back handle with a deflex limb as found in the Apache bows??
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« Reply #7 on: August 05, 2009, 08:18:50 pm »
Yes Frank that would be more accurate. I just call these Gull wing as a general reference
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« Reply #8 on: August 05, 2009, 08:41:35 pm »
Gull Winged.......you mean like these......

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« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2009, 09:04:25 pm »
Here's one that has the handle setback a bit.  I built it a couple months ago with an assist from Mother Nature.  Both the handle and bottom limb were already shaped this way.  I heat bent the top limb to match the bottom.  

63" nock to nock.  48# @ 28."   I've always called this my gull wing bow.....

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« Reply #10 on: August 05, 2009, 09:51:34 pm »
hojo   that sure is a purty stick ya got,me likey

but i do believe the pics eld posted are more acurate to a gull wing bow,and yours would be a set back handle
i could be wrong though,let me ask my wife lol         shhhhhh dont tell her i said that
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« Reply #11 on: August 05, 2009, 10:43:20 pm »
i love the setback/recurve, whatever you call it.  I built a couple laminated bows like that last year, four i think, of osage, hickory, and rosewood.  All good bows.

I have a yew branch about 70" long with a naturally setback handle...we'll see how the tips wind up!
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« Reply #12 on: August 06, 2009, 02:25:34 am »
El D, I would call the Cupid bow double-curved, the Lakota bow I would call gull-winged! (Both have set-back handles, of course!)

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« Reply #13 on: August 06, 2009, 02:28:22 am »
Hojo, that bow is really nice; what wood??
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« Reply #14 on: August 06, 2009, 12:26:24 pm »
Several native bows with set-back handles.

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