Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: ThimoS on July 28, 2008, 09:48:56 pm
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Cool! Good to see other people inspired by movies!
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That's a serious bow right there. :o
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cool bow whats the weight on it ?
Dennis
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The weight is 90#.
It is made from an elm selfbow backed with redoak slats, backed again in linen. The rest is just silk and hemp and paint. Oh and two brass tacks.
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sweet, id forgoten about this one! cooler than i remember.
Phil
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Thanks everyone.
Yes orcbow I do get inspired by lots of stuff including movies. I'm a father of 2 and I see kids everyday getting interesting again in archery via movies, video-games, ect. I think it's a good thing. Kind of like getting back into literature via Harry-Potter. Anyways when I set out to make a bow based on a movie or a computer-generated image, the thesis is always: "Virtual world and Reality Ain't so far removed". Then I go for function over mere prop-pieces. I want the bow to come out as if it were meant to really shoot the things it does in the movie, not just be a decorative prop.
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I get disappointed when I see a movie with archery in it, but the bows are just movie props! Especially when you look at all the people on this site can do. Did you know that Tim Baker made the bow for the Scorpion King movie? I read about it in Primitive Archer magazine several years ago. He wrote the article even. Besides the Roc should be able to handle a #90 bow!
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That's a cool bow, Thimo.
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Thimo gald to see you posting here :) And that is one cool looking bow and I bet yer kids like it :)
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A great candidate for July Laminate Bow of the Month - we'll look at it again on Friday or Sat a.m
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;D Thimo, I hope you post more of your bows here. Some of your whitewood longbows would be a big hit. (pun intended)
Rich
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Eh Thimo, I copied you and if a few of your endevours and I learned alot from it. I just finished 3 pine log bows 40lbs @ 28"
Im also making a mammoth hunting holmegaard.
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A great candidate for July Laminate Bow of the Month - we'll look at it again on Friday or Sat a.m
If Thimo makes it into the mag with his shirt off, Im gonna have to hide it from my wife. :o
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Thanks everyone!
Yes I did know about Tim Baker making the bow. He posted the pic of the bow while I was working on mine. His was a hickory selfbow with recurves that was about 30# and was then sent to the movie props department for decoration. What great acting by the guy who couldn't draw it ey.
Boot, thanks for mentioning the pine bows. I'm still fooling with them. Glad yours turned out too.
Rich I'll see what I can drum up. He-he-heh.....
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True to form of a classic Thimo photo. ;) I always love the serious concentration of your full draw pics. Cool bow Thimo, it would definately be intimidating to see that pointed toward you in battle. :o
How about some more pics and detail? What's the unbraced profile look like and a few close ups of the tips would be sweet as well.
Nice to see ya here here bro. I've always admired your bows and your skills. ;) Keenan
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Wolshire, "If Thimo makes it into the mag with his shirt off, Im gonna have to hide it from my wife."
I agree. I find my wife doing double takes on some of his pics. ::) Maybe we can photo shop his pics and put our own heads on there. >:D Somehow I don't think I could capture the look. ::)
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that's a cool bow, man! how about some details of how you made it??
frank
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Thankyou very much everyone. I've got pics of the making of it somewhere and will find them.
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All I can find at the moment are some pics of the movie bow and one pic of the early stages of the one I made.
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c39/thimosabv/SK-03.jpg)
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c39/thimosabv/SK-02.jpg)
(http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c39/thimosabv/SK-01.jpg)
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Thimo, are you sure your not related to the rock? i see a slight resemblance. >:D
Phil
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No I see no resemblance. I did real wrestling in my day. LOL
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Thimo, it is good to see you here. I occasionally visit paleoplanet, and wish you were also over here. Your work and sense of humor and outlook is refreshing indeed. And I have to admit, I tried to find that book you mentioned about the two kids surviving in the winter mountains, as I seem to vaugly recall it too, but I haven't had any luck thus far.
Dane
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Thanks Dane! That book will resurface I have no doubt. It will come at the time I most need it. That's the way life goes with me, and I have zero complaints.
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I just love the Rock's full draw shot..4 fingers..on a 30# bow :D
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SWEET
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Thankyou.
Rich, who said he couldn't act. LOL
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The Rock did a pretty good job in the recent Doom, and he seems like a totally nice guy. The muscle guys turned actors all seem that way - Mr. T, Governor Arnold, etc.
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Dane I totally agree. I'm never one for knocking bodybuilders I was one since 12-27. Won a few contests once-upon-a-time.
It's cool to me to have read Arnold's bio some 30 years ago and know that his goals were to 1st be the top body-builder, then come to America, be an actor and perhaps politics. LOL. He's done them all and in spades.
Sports like wrestling and bodybuilding and yes even bowyering are great because they are one man shows. You are you own judge-jury-and executioner. You can't blame fellow teammates. It's you v/s yourself. You have to set your own agenda and stick to it with and without a coach kicking your butt to get there.
I believe it is years of bodybuilding that gives me the drive and confidence to attack bows the way I do today. I'm one of those 100% or nothing types.
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Thimo, You hit the nail on the head, I agree sports can teach great disipline that will follow through life. I was a gymnast for seven years and wrestled for five and a few years of tiakwondo. Partial effort dosen't cut it, all or nothin.
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The self discipline of any sport you really strive to perfect will come in mighty handy in bow making, and not minding soliitude. Man, I wish I had gotten into body building, but as wimpy as I am, I can still open any jar my wife hands me. :)
Speaking of Arnold, I watched Predator yesterday for the first time in years. Arnold / Dutch made a hugely powerful bow to kill the monster with. He, alas, only got one shot at the thing with an explosive arrow with poweder from a 40mm grenade, but it looked like some kind of sapling bow. Where he got the string I dont know :) By this time, poor Jessie Ventura had bitten the dust.
Dane
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Outstanding bow, Thimo. Jawge
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This is a really cool bow. It is also a very serious bow from what I can tell.
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if i remember right it was a cane or boo bundle bow,the string was wire from a trip wire.
hey dont mess with my ex governor there either, remember he aint got time to bleed >:D
tim
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Thanks!!!
Yep, I'd rather see Arnold useing a bundle bow than Rambo and his wheely-jig. Even if the string is wire.
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Ah, trip wire wire. True, and he had very little time to get it all together before challenging the Predator. I wonder if he spined the arrows to match the bow weight? Probably that is why he missed on his shot at the beastie. :) Pretty good for an ex-Austrian tank driver, even if it was all move make-believe.
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Dane I recomend Arnold's bio "Education of a bodybuilder" it will stoke anyones furnace wheather they like the sport or not.
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90#s eh? No wonder youre gritting your teeth!Ever wonder how far it will fling an arra?
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It flings arrows pretty far. I would be confident even hunting with it.
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Thimo, I read that book about 15 years ago and it was great. It fires you up no matter what you are traning to do.
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Yep, it's all about setting the goals and going at it hell or high water.
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very cool . great to see you back brother.