Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: possum on July 24, 2007, 10:19:27 am
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Sunday while at work I was scrapin down a shoot from an old bush I had cut 9 years earlier. Someone asked what I was doin and I told him making an arrow. We got to talking and he said he'd like to see one of my bows. Monday I brought it in. He said he was impressed (so was I... it shoots :D) About one hour later he shows up with a 10 foot bamboo pole and gives it to me and says he wants me to make a bow with it. Wow! :o He says it is tonkin and he makes fishing poles with it. Now there are several concerns I have. 1) It is only about 2" wide, but thick walled. 2) How narrow a bow will bamboo make? Either he is a nice guy or very mean. This could be challenging. I mean, I already had to get it home in a Ford Escort ::). Stuck out the trunk and out the front window just to fit. The challenge doesn't bother me... I like it. I just have never made a narrow bow.
possum
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How do you envision making a bow? Cutting it in half, flattening and then gluing it back together? Using it for backing on a wood belly? The latter is more common than the former but both are options.
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I had been thinking of using it as a backing but the all bamboo bow has always intrigued me but one side of this can is alreeady cracked from drying for the last 23 years. :)
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with a 2" diameter piece you could rip of a pretty narrow strip and do a nice backed bow on one of the hard tropical woods, like ipe, massaranduba, bubinga, etc. Maybe 1 & 1/8" wide.
Dave