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Title: Fascinating article on Scythian bows
Post by: markinengland on 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

Title: Re: Fascinating article on Scythian bows
Post by: Keenan on 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

(http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c326/bornagainprimitve/100-0017_IMG.jpg)

Title: Re: Fascinating article on Scythian bows
Post by: aero86 on January 08, 2011, 09:42:45 pm

hey, thats a nice article.  keenan, still have the bow?  looks pretty good!

Title: Re: Fascinating article on Scythian bows
Post by: Keenan on 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.

Title: Re: Fascinating article on Scythian bows
Post by: aero86 on 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.

Title: Re: Fascinating article on Scythian bows
Post by: Cromm on January 09, 2011, 06:49:06 pm

One of my fav bows.

Title: Re: Fascinating article on Scythian bows
Post by: Lukasz Nawalny on 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

Title: Re: Fascinating article on Scythian bows
Post by: aero86 on January 09, 2011, 08:52:52 pm

wow, nice!

Title: Re: Fascinating article on Scythian bows
Post by: Del the cat on 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?
Del