Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: zdogk9 on December 10, 2012, 02:29:30 pm
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I ran across this and just had to share
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNfH7qhsLGo&feature=g-high-rec (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNfH7qhsLGo&feature=g-high-rec)
Hope you enjoy
Z
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Thank you for sharing! These guys level of skill is just immaculate.
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Getting it to brace must be different on these... ;D Whenever I see these korean bowyers work I am amazed how briefly they heat things, and how often. Anyone know more about it?
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That was so very cool! I wish they had it translated.
Still, I wanna make bows with that guy.
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Amazing!
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Still, I wanna make bows with that guy.
He'd probably have you saw out 150 buffalo horns for the first week and then hold his bows while he wraps the cord on 150 bows the next... ;D
I read that such bows were often made in large batches over a period of 5 - 10 years, so that the same step of the process was done for all bows during months.
But you're right, it would be great.
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awesome video. wicked skills that guy has
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He'd probably have you saw out 150 buffalo horns for the first week and then hold his bows while he wraps the cord on 150 bows the next... ;D
At the end of that, I'd be able to crank one out with my eyes closed.
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Wow, I feel so elementry in my bwyer skills all of the sudden
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Yup, very humbling. I am really at the beginning phase of learning how to make bows.
Gabe
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Here's another neat one. Very different though.
Gabe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPcE2HkH-AM
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Rossfactor,
Not so very different, and it pretty much puts to rest the argument that sinew composite bows were non-starters in humid climates, since, (unless my memory has failed) Humbolt and Del Norte counties are darned near as wet as Pacific, Grey's Harbor and Clallam counties
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Here's another neat one. Very different though.
Gabe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPcE2HkH-AM
Thats a good one too! I need to bookmark these....
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Yeah, coastal Humboldt is like breathing underwater. Inland can be very dry (in the dry season). I think the Hoopa lived primarily in the Hoopa valley area, which is pretty darned dry in the summer and fall. Not that that has any definitive bearing on the sinew in a humid climate debate.
Gabe
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If that is the guy from that 4 hour video, I read sometime back that he had either a massive stroke or died and is no longer making bows. This was only one comment somewhere, so I may be very wrong. Something about making a gigantic ceremonial court bow that contributed to his end. But again, I may be and hope I am wrong.