The limb timing thread and George's post made me think of a bow I was requested to build a couple years ago. The man was a member of the SCA and was going on a hunt and for the hunt he wanted a bow that he had seen on a tapestry in England. I don't remember exactly what he called it but I think it was a knobby bow so that's what I'm going with. Now I never posted pictures of this bow, I should have, and the unfortunate thing is the flash drive that had all my bow pictures, and other info, crashed a few months ago. I was able to salvage many of the pictures with a program and many of them were on a back up I had made a few years ago. I did lose quite a lot of them though, including a picture of the tapestry with the bow on it. The frustrating part is the way the program works that saves the info is that it merely saves the info unsorted
. The only images I was able to recover of this bow is a handful from when I was tillering it out.
The bow was made of Elm, by request, and 64" long. The limbs were 1 1/2" wide at the center, flat bellied and tapering to 3/4" wide at the tips. He wanted something with as many knobs on the back as possible. The stave was straight, just knobby. It came out at 55# @ 26". Not much point posting pictures of the bow at different stages of tillering so here is the first and the last one of the series.
