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Title: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: LEGIONNAIRE on September 09, 2012, 03:50:36 am

Here is a Le Moyne inspired 5 curve bow made of pacific dogwood. The le moyne engravings were drawn back in florida in an expeditions. Even though the natives looked more european and the bows not fitting for the area someone requested that I recreate one from the drawing, so I did. This bow is a nice little shooter. Its about 53lbs @26 inches. recurved tips. I did hickory over lays so I could get the shape in the nocks. Below I have the links to 2 of the drawing depicting the bows. and below the pics.
http://www.milesharvey.com/images/excertps3.jpg
http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/photos/native/lemoyne/lemoyne5/lemoy532.htm

(http://i697.photobucket.com/albums/vv335/c3sarr/Murray5curve.jpg)
(http://i697.photobucket.com/albums/vv335/c3sarr/pulling5curve2.jpg)

Title: Re: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: Hunter Van Winkle on September 09, 2012, 05:13:47 am

Beautiful shape!

Title: Re: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: Del the cat on September 09, 2012, 05:34:21 am

Sweet, but you are teasing us :-\... we want that full draw shot :laugh:
Del

Title: Re: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: lesken2011 on September 09, 2012, 09:32:09 am

Nice job on that one, too, Cesar!! 8)

Title: Re: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: Matt Heppe on September 09, 2012, 10:12:43 am

Very nice! Love the curves.

I've yet to see a dogwood in Pennsylvania that I could turn into a bow. So many twists and turns.

Title: Re: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: SLIMBOB on September 09, 2012, 11:02:54 am

Nice!

Title: Re: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: beetlebailey1977 on September 09, 2012, 04:07:51 pm

Looks like a sweet bow.

Title: Re: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: hammertime on September 09, 2012, 06:34:10 pm

nice lookin bow,looks like a sweet shooter,that could be the latest in camo-scent lock deer outifit ;D-Hammertime

Title: Re: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: JW_Halverson on September 09, 2012, 06:40:09 pm

Cesar, you dog!  I love that bow! 

Bring it up here to South Dakota and we'll take it out hunting!

Title: Re: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: Badly Bent on September 09, 2012, 07:42:04 pm

Very nice, really like that graceful profile on that bow.
Greg

Title: Re: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: tattoo dave on September 09, 2012, 10:15:20 pm

Nice work!! I love those 5 curves, ya did a great job.

Tattoo Dave

Title: Re: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: Pappy on September 12, 2012, 07:55:36 am

Missed this one,very well done.Sweet curves. :)
   Pappy

Title: Re: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: coaster500 on September 12, 2012, 12:36:43 pm

Very nice R/D profile !!!

Cool Bow :)

Title: Re: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: Parnell on September 12, 2012, 12:44:43 pm

Really cool bow.  Those engravings have always interested me, living in Florida.  I didn't know about the artist, now I do.  Thanks for sharing, noteworthy bow!

Title: Re: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: Patches on September 12, 2012, 03:29:07 pm

I just found two dogwoods yesterday that are straight enough to make bows from.  After seeing what you have done I can't wait till they get dry enough to start working.  Nice Job!

Title: Re: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: Deo on September 12, 2012, 05:59:06 pm

I really like that bow. I have beeb wanting to make a bow like that for a while. I really like eastern style bows especially the simplicity of the d bows.

Title: Re: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: Hunter Van Winkle on September 12, 2012, 06:43:37 pm

Very beautiful. How'd you do the curves?

Title: Re: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: SA on September 12, 2012, 10:29:43 pm

very nice bow , i've often wandered how much early contact with euoropean's in eastern u.s  may have influenced  tribal culture's.

Title: Re: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: LEGIONNAIRE on September 13, 2012, 02:35:49 am

Thank you allfor the nice comments.
Hunter: I did the curves by using steam and some pots. Pots are great when doing recurves. The wood also lends to the steam bending very well. I liked this wood so much Im making myself one of these for target shooting.

Title: Re: Le Moyne inspired dogwood bow
Post by: WDELongbow on September 13, 2012, 07:35:33 am

I am the happy owner of this bow. Cesar did a very nice job. The bow is amazingly quiet, no hand shock, and a pleasure to shoot. The traces of early history, and the very limited pre-contact archeological record differ from our common notion of what native peoples of SE United States used for their archery tackle design. For example round/oval cross section and recurved tips. This bow straightens out, when strung, to a braced profile identical to the general shape of the bows in Le Moyne's engravings. Despite criticism from academic community, my study of Desoto and Pardo expeditions have found almost entirely "historically accurate" information in these images. Things beside the faces. The material items agree strongly with the archeological and historical record. Is this bow a lost design? We will likely never know. I personally believe this is Le Moyne's best recollection of what he saw. He was there.