Nydam target bow

[Fundin]

Here is a Nydam Target bow I made a while ago, It is from a rather inferior piece of yew with low density and a few cracks. I filled the cracks with glue and tillered the bow to 24", then considered myself done, wrapped it up in sinew and drew it to 28" It is only 38#, but a little to strong for my whife since she doesnt get her shoulder rotated, but thats pretty much due to 6 months without archery, beeing pregnant and giving birth.... The bow is about 1" wide at the handle, narrowing down to 3/8 at the nocks, almost as deep as it is wide with a high crowned belly. I couldnt make it any wider since the piece was not very clean.

Here is the bow strung

And sidenocks

Wear at the handle, you can see my bowyer mark, the runes H and T combined for Henrik Thurfjell


And a full draw picture, or kind of, she will need to start over with a weaker bow.

Sinew wrapping

And our daughter Torunn joined us at the archery range, still a couple of years until it is her turn....


Cheers
/Henrik

[Ryano]

Cool bow, I like how you dyed the leather grip. Looks neat. Congrats on the new addition to the family, I have a 5 month old daughter myself. They sure grow fast!

[Pappy]

Nice bow and beautiful pictures,the bow and the baby.Congrats on both.
   Pappy

[Hillbilly]

Nice replica, I like the Nydam design. Fine looking little one, too.

[uwe]

Nice Fundin! Where do you come from? Did you see the originals at Schloß Gottorf?

[Fundin]

Thanks everyone, I come from northern Sweden (Luleå) but lately i have moved south to Umeå, wich is still pretty far north. I have never seen the originals, just pictures.

[Dano]

Nice job, Tell your wife to get her elbow down.

[Dane]

Fundan, this is a beautiful weapon. I like the side nocks. Are / were the sinew wrappings decorative, or functional? Lovely daughter, too.

Dane

PS do you happen to have the dimensions of one of the original bow you replicated? I have always wanted to try building one.

[radius]

what is a nydam bow?

btw, i remember seen ryano's baby in his video about applying snake skins

[Justin Snyder]

Great looking bow, but not nearly as cute as your daughter.  Those are the cutest cheeks. Justin

[Fundin]

Thanks everyone. The sinew wrapping is both decorative and have a a purpose, to keep the bow together as it had some cracks

[Fundin]

Oh yes, a Nydam bow is a bow copied from the Nydam finds, about 300 ad, longbows with sidenocks, made mainly from yew. Wrapped in this fashion. The originals were estimated to have about twice the drawweight of thisone.

[uwe]

Nydam is are moor in what is now soth of Danmark. Until 1 WW. it was German. There was a ship, which had been lying there since 6th Century which had been sacrificed to the gods. It contained bows and arrows as well as twisted swords, shields and other stuff.
The ship is what the Anglosaxons used to row across the Northsea. Our ancestors rowed from the mouth of the river Elbe to England in the time of migration in the early middleages.
Try at "Google": " Nydamboot" or " Schloss Gottorf". In this castle the founds of Nydam are presented incl. the ship.
Regards