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markinengland
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Fascinating article on Scythian bows
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January 08, 2011, 06:00:05 pm »
This has just been published on Atarn. A truly unique article on truly unique bows.
http://www.atarn.org/chinese/Yanghai/Scythian_bow_ATARN.pdf
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Keenan
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January 08, 2011, 08:28:27 pm »
Wow Mark that was an awesome read. I was in the providence where those bows where found back in 2000. Also went to the tomb of the terracotta warriors. I saw some similar bows in one of the museums over there but couldn't take pictures.
Several years ago I made a bow with a similar profile but it was all natural. No splices, all wood naturalshaped stave with no heat bends. Just saw the tree with the odd shape and had to try it. Here is a pic of that short all natural bow.
I thought I had a pic of the stave from that tree but can't find it. Anyway the unbraced profile is almost identical to those sythian profiles
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aero86
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January 08, 2011, 09:42:45 pm »
hey, thats a nice article. keenan, still have the bow? looks pretty good!
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profsaffel "clogs like the devil" I always figured Lucifer to be more of a disco kind of guy.
Keenan
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January 08, 2011, 09:46:30 pm »
Yes aero I do, I did bust a tip but I actually had it on the bech for the repair before seeing this.
Mark you got my head spinning some more with that article. Going to have to tr to make one of those for real not just by luck of the odd shaped stave.
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aero86
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January 08, 2011, 10:16:34 pm »
i like it keenan, care to trade? lol. i got some stuff to get rid of! haha.
how does it shoot? i bet you could really leave it strung for a while, like the article said. with your narrow tips, it could really throw an arrow.
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profsaffel "clogs like the devil" I always figured Lucifer to be more of a disco kind of guy.
Cromm
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January 09, 2011, 06:49:06 pm »
One of my fav bows.
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Lukasz Nawalny
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Lukasz Nawalny
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January 09, 2011, 08:27:34 pm »
I have 2 scythian horn/sinew in process.few fotos - one scyth bevore sinewing , my heating machine in action , over 3000 wats
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aero86
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January 09, 2011, 08:52:52 pm »
wow, nice!
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profsaffel "clogs like the devil" I always figured Lucifer to be more of a disco kind of guy.
Del the cat
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January 10, 2011, 10:31:04 am »
Great article, ta for the heads up.
I loved the bit that said some people would say that this method of construction was impossible.
Interesting use of the term 'crude length' presumably a misstranslation of 'rough' or 'aproximate' length?
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