Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: half eye on February 20, 2010, 02:08:30 pm
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Thought I'd make myself a Molle hunting bow and this is what I come up with. It is Red Elm, 57" NTN, 62# @ 28". Icarved the limbs and levers and decided to paint the carving to see how that looked. The bow still needs it's wax job but the sealers are all on (satin finish now, but may go to flat) I purposely made the bow from wood that had a slow cruve to the grain and made it to fit the grain curve....came out nearly center shot. Weather got up to 28 degrees today so shot about 50-55 arrows through it ....and it just keeps getting better :D
Thought ya might like a look, more than 6 pics so two posts...sorry
half eye
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Here's some detail shots
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Looks great Rich :)
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Superb! A good hunter, but also handy for the occasional monastery raid. Excellent work Rich!
Frode
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What is the string material you are using?
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wow !!
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Fellas,
The string is made from artificial sinew, spun up in three bundle like a flemish twist. 3 bundles of 3.
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beautifull bow, excellent craftsmanship, you sure are a busy bowyer!!!
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Beautiful craftsmanship as always. Nice bow.
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Nice work.
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wow! That is an awesome bow. I like the carvings, good job on that one for sure. Nice tiller too.
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Another beauty Half Eye. Maybe I will try a little carving on my mollegebet. I like the colors you used, and the tiller, it is another fine bow. Great job.
tell
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Another Half-eye success! Nice use of color and carving like they did 7000 years ago when the bow was developed. Now go clear the backyard of deer!
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Thanks guys, I got some nice flying telephone poles from down Georga way, and when some of them busted riocks get here that's next on the agenda....fill up my red fox quiver.....then I got wait for October to roll around :-\
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Another awesome beauty Halfeye. Your talents are incredible. Love the design and tiller looks great
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Nice work and as always you do excellent carvings...might have to try it out someday!
Russ
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What incredible craftmanship... form and function at its finest. You've inspired me.
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what a beautiful piece archery. man, i don't know how that thing is not coming apart with all those carvings on it. i love the artwork.
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Another beauty.Is the grain perfectly vertical in this bow? God Bless
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Half Eye
Love this bow style. You are an artist!
Ron
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Very Very pretty bow..
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How do you carve in the back of the bow without compromising it? Just curious, I would love to do something like this.
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that is sweet Rich, been a long time since I saw one of your molly's, fantastic , bub
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i love them carvings, nice bow too. :)
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I too would like to know how you can carve into the back without it breaking
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Dang! That's one awesome piece of work, beautiful carvings and tiller of course, looks like it belongs in a museum :)
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I'm sure Rich will chime in and correct me if I'm wrong but I think it has a lot to do with quarter sawed lumber.
DBar
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Simply beautiful. Love that boar!
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Sweet Jesus fellas, that,s more than 3 years ago.
DB, it was indeed a fully quartersawn red elm, and an outstanding piece of it at that. I really am reluctant to bring it up again because of all the crap I got over the first 10 of these or so. It all started as an experiment because I knew that Vikings carved most all of their wood objects from long boats and Meeting halls all the way down to furniture, chests, and ornaments, as well as their ski's......that got me to wondering if ya can carve a ski (which flex's violently like a bow) then why not a bow.
At first a little less than 1/2 the bows survived, and then I caught on to how I needed to do the carving and it got a lot better. I did this carving with "ball headed" ruby carvers mounted in a wood handle instead of the Foredom, rotary tool. You cant go too deep (shallow relief) and don't even think about leaving any sharp lines, edges or margins. By the way, this bow is still in my brother's possession and has been shot nearly every day for 2 or so years (he used it for therapy from a very bad disease ) it is now retired but still in shooting condition.
I don't hardly make or post any more Mollegabets' because my interest was on behalf of a good friend who is of Viking decent and now that he has a bunch of them, I have been concentrating on my Native American bows, even the shooting style. The main hold over is being real well versed in Elder Futhark.
rich
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Sweet Jesus fellas, that,s more than 3 years ago.
Rich, you do make an impression.......HAHA ;D
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I'm glad this topic came back to the top. It was before my time here on PA and I had never seen it. That is a sweet one, Rich. ;)
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I'm glad this topic came back to the top. It was before my time here on PA and I had never seen it. That is a sweet one, Rich. ;)
Me too Kenny! It is cool to see what kind of bows you were turning out then as compared to now. That is awesome Rich.
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I'm glad this topic came back to the top. It was before my time here on PA and I had never seen it. That is a sweet one, Rich. ;)
YEAH! This is AMAZING!
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Very nice bow. Everything about it is top notch. You are a very skilled bowyer.
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Thats crazy how your able to carve into the back of the bow like that Rich, great job! The bow will mesmerize the deer before you shoot ! ;D
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I'm with all the other fellas, that was the year before I joined...
Sir, to me that bow is stunning!
You said you mounted the Burr in a Wooden handle.
So you Turned/Spun the Burr by hand to carve the relief?
Even More Amazing!!!
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