Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: druid on October 05, 2011, 12:07:40 pm
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Old legend said that in every elder tree there is good guardian, Elder mother. Having elder wood with you helps Elder mother to keep evil witches and ghosts away from you....
This should be special bow for my dear friend Vesna. I wanted to make some "magical" to her and I deicided it to be elder wood. I haven't work with elder wood before. I was suspicious but this wood is great- hard, strong, easy to work, compression strong, like some old bone under touch. This supposed to be very accurate bow so I choose narrow sapling of elder. It is just 1 x 1" in the handle. It is 66" ntn. Having little twist and character in the outer limbs but not much. I scraped out its spoongy core form one limb and it is still very strong limb- holding on two narrow wooden walls (you will see on pics what I am talking about). After sending it is hypnotical on the touch. Sapling had 1" of deflex in the middle of the stave and took more 3/5 of set, total is 1 3/5, without heat treating. Draw weight is 50# at 30" but it will be pulled little shorter. Nocks are made of juniper heart- one more magical recipe- it is said that juniper heart is reppelent to bears and wolwes. I hope she would like this bow.
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nice bow ! i like simple
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beautiful bow! and great story. thanks druid
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Top of the line. Evokes stuff that I relish.
Lane
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Beautiful! I agree with johnston, that is a very evocative bow. I think your friend will love the bow. It has female all over it.
Druid- I noticed you put the tassel end at the top and the loop at the bottom on your bows. I have always done it the other way but I think I will
change to Druid style because I like the way it looks. Could tie a feather to it or something. What do you use for string material? I was also wondering if the frayed part of the loop end could act like a string silencer if there was more fray in that area. See what a big influence you are to people on the other side of the world through your sharing! O:)
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Great looking bow. :D
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Another great looking bow Druid
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Love your work Druid...
Great looking Bow.
And and Excellent Back Story to go with it.
Regards,
-gus
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Wonderful bow :)
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Wonderful bow :)
...as always 8) 8) 8)
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Awesome Druid, just another beauty in your portfolio.
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Another great looking Druid style bow ;)
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I'm in love with that bow. I know I've looked at it at least twenty times.
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Another great bow! I have been inspired by your bows, and put aside a sugar maple branch this past spring with the intention imitating one of your bows. Keep them coming!
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nice bow, your bows have definitely made me look at saplings more as bow wood , i havent had much luck with them they seem to always lift splinters at the crown . whats the trick? what is the groove on the belly for?
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That's a great looking bow and love the mythological history that goes with it. No matter how many "pretty" bows I make, always like making the 'simple".
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Thank you friends, very much... I will keep them coming!
randman - I am glad I can give back something to bowmakers comunity. When I was younger I was just taking, now is time to give some expirience. I use B-50 for lighter bows and ff for heavier.
sa- just do not overdraw them during tillering. The saplings we work on were bended by the wind without problems- why making them into bows would change anything...? ;) The groove you see is place where I chopped out it's spoongy core.
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I am intrigued by the grove in the bow. Does it serve a function. Was it a way to get the tips to bend... I have never seen this before?
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Hvala vam na adance za odgovaranje na pitanja početnika :laugh:
I hope this is right!!
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Grove is place where tho spoongy core is taken from.
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That is a "magical" bow. Good work! I too love the story. I think it gives it an extra special meaning. I have been wondering if that type of wood would be good for a bow...nice to see it done. Thanks for sharing!
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Nice "nipples" on the Elder Mother! Legend has it that you should ask her permission three time before cutting her wood!...
Love the bow!
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Hvala vam :)
Apsolutno lepa !!
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Yes, I also have been wondering the same- now I know it is able to give good bow!
I asked just one permission, as other woods.......
Coaster- nema na čemu! ;)
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man thats a nice bow, your really turning out some sweet bows ,, keep them coming
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Very nicely done! Sometimes the simple bows are the hardest to make.