Hi You,
what a wonderful and straight forward made bow! I like the pictures to try and make a similar one. From ash tree, as other good wood is not easily available here. These carpenters do not have, what one needs for bow making! Hence, as I haven't got much spare time and as it isn't easy to find good wood over here, I have recently switched to make bows from thin wood boards, cut at right angle to the grain, 0.18-0.22'' thick and 2''mm wide. Two of them gued together with TitebondIII after reflexing them. Of course, the handhold will be 5-6 layers, eventually of layers of different wood. So, this approach is a feasible approach to easily produce bows, to quickly learn about different sorts of wood and their behaviour, and not to have wasted too much time when the bow fails after having made principle mistakes. It is a sort of compromise between traditional, classical composite, local opportunities and the need to learn more about wood behaviour...with the goal to build traditional bows from staves...in a time where our kids learn and know more about an Xbox than about the trees and bushes in our garden.
A happy new year to all of you!
Wolfgang
