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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Kviljo on January 27, 2010, 09:00:00 pm

Title: Photo-along Holmegård
Post by: Kviljo on January 27, 2010, 09:00:00 pm

I hope the pictures will tell the story better than words.

More to come in a week or so, when the bow has rehydrated after the heat treating.


(http://kviljo.no/bue/holmalong/1.jpg)

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Title: Re: Photo-along Holmegård
Post by: NTProf on January 27, 2010, 09:41:30 pm

Can't wait to see the rest. What kind of wood is that?

Title: Re: Photo-along Holmegård
Post by: Josh on January 28, 2010, 12:23:05 am

good lord that is a buncha reflex!!!   Looking good so far... keep us posted.  Great work man!   :)  -josh

Title: Re: Photo-along Holmegård
Post by: medicinewheel on January 28, 2010, 02:08:22 am

WOW... very nice!
Is that an ash sapling??

Title: Re: Photo-along Holmegård
Post by: Cooper on January 28, 2010, 06:10:32 am

That looks like a cool work …

Title: Re: Photo-along Holmegård
Post by: Kviljo on January 28, 2010, 07:05:50 am

Yep, it's Ash :)

Title: Re: Photo-along Holmegård
Post by: Pappy on January 28, 2010, 07:46:26 am

Looking good so far. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: Photo-along Holmegård
Post by: greenstick on January 28, 2010, 10:42:59 am

Looks good, I like it already.

Title: Re: Photo-along Holmegård
Post by: Dane on January 28, 2010, 02:31:57 pm

Neat photo-along. I do like how you used a knife to carve in the nocks. I get sick of using a file, actually dislike making the nocks. I'll have to try carving them in, see how that goes.

Do you normally heat treat your bows?

Dane

Title: Re: Photo-along Holmegård
Post by: Kviljo on January 28, 2010, 03:26:21 pm

I carve them, but still use a chainsaw-file to smooth them out. It takes forever with just the file :)

It's been a while since I heat treated a bow now. Haven't made any good candidates for it lately.

Title: Re: Photo-along Holmegård
Post by: zenmonkeyman on January 28, 2010, 03:35:37 pm

You're definitely making this look easy!  Keep the pictures coming!  Does ash normally grow so fast?

Title: Re: Photo-along Holmegård
Post by: mox1968 on January 28, 2010, 04:37:58 pm

looks great so far but where did you get the flying spokeshave ??

Title: Re: Photo-along Holmegård
Post by: adb on January 28, 2010, 09:52:59 pm

Sweet Jesus. That's very good work making a bow out of that skinny & twisty little branch. I wouldn't even look at that for bow wood. I guess I need to look harder!!  ;D Oh yah... where did you get the power spokeshave? I need one.  ;D

Title: Re: Photo-along Holmegård
Post by: medicinewheel on January 29, 2010, 03:14:28 am

Will you show us the hornbow, too???
Is it Kreamian-Tartar?

Title: Re: Photo-along Holmegård
Post by: Kviljo on January 29, 2010, 07:10:56 am

The smaller ash trees usually have good growth rings. It depends on the growing conditions, anyway.

The flying spokeshave is just great! You can just sit down with a cup of coffee and watch it do the work ;D I've trained it for years 8)

The horn bow is my second try, so it's really not close to any type. The guys at Atarn said it looked most like some modern mongolian bows.
Check it out here:
http://198.170.107.188/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1465 (http://198.170.107.188/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1465)

There's another thread of mine here, showing my first and third horn bow too.
http://198.170.107.188/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1425 (http://198.170.107.188/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1425)

Title: Re: Photo-along Holmegård
Post by: medicinewheel on January 29, 2010, 05:10:14 pm

Now I remember I had seen those on Atarn...!
Very nice, too! Post the next one here and I would bet it was a front runner for BOM!!!