Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: BowSlayer on August 15, 2013, 02:32:40 pm
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a while back i wanted to make my friend and his sister a bow, so i made them a PVC one which he lost intrest in after 5 muinets but his little sister loved it and when she came round the other day i let her play around with some other bows i have made. even the crossbow that im working on. anyway after an hour i asked if she wanted to try making one. from wood. she wanted to give it a go.
i picked up a broom handle that was 2" longer than she was tall. i know a broom handle isn't the best bow wood but i wanted to give it another go as it had worked for me a few months ago. the way i taught her was that i would work on one limb and she would do the same on the other limb. we roughed it out in 30 nmins and it had a round back and a flat belly. we got it in the tiller but there was a knot hidden in one limb which caused a limb to fail. we laughed about it and she wen't back to playing with the bows.
after she left i looked at the remains and decided that i would make it into a takedown, the break happened mid-limb so i put the broken piece on the fire wood pile and then cut the rest off at the handle. im going to atempt to make some take-down sleves and make a new limb from another broom handle. but for now it will sit in the corner of un-finnished bows until i make the new limb. i took some pics of her making the bow.
(http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t614/bowslayerjez/20130812_153044_zpse8e138bd.jpg) (http://s1316.photobucket.com/user/bowslayerjez/media/20130812_153044_zpse8e138bd.jpg.html)
picture of the "stave"
(http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t614/bowslayerjez/20130812_153057_zps1973592a.jpg) (http://s1316.photobucket.com/user/bowslayerjez/media/20130812_153057_zps1973592a.jpg.html)
measuring the handle/fades
(http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t614/bowslayerjez/20130812_154017_zps74eb6acc.jpg) (http://s1316.photobucket.com/user/bowslayerjez/media/20130812_154017_zps74eb6acc.jpg.html)
using the half round rasp for the tips.
(http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t614/bowslayerjez/20130812_154712_zpsf897cc18.jpg) (http://s1316.photobucket.com/user/bowslayerjez/media/20130812_154712_zpsf897cc18.jpg.html)
we used the round rasp to get down to thickness then used the surform rasp to get the thicknes on the limb
(http://i1316.photobucket.com/albums/t614/bowslayerjez/20130812_163103_zpsde30e838.jpg) (http://s1316.photobucket.com/user/bowslayerjez/media/20130812_163103_zpsde30e838.jpg.html)
bow on the tiller before it broke.
i will continue this post when i get round to making a replacement limb
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that is a cool looking bow...
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that is a cool looking bow...
Correction: it was a cool looking bow.
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Where did it break?
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Mid limb on the right