As per request I am posting a little presentation of myself. I am 31yrs old, from northern Sweden and I made my first serviceable bow in 96, a noray pine bow of 40# made from a long branch....It worked well until the wooddried out enough, then it cracked. Since about 2001 I have made more serious bows, you can se some on my homepage under "Bågar jag byggt"
www.asgard.se/henrik they are just a few examples, I take to few photographs. I usually trade my bows for other stuff like axes, handmade cloth or a tanned skin.
I have subscribet to PA for a little over a year and I am really enjoying the magazine, now I am waiting for some back issues i ordered a while ago, sometimes the mail takes forever.
I am currently on the lookout for sturgeon skins for my next hunting bow, It will be a short yew bow spliced from billets, sinew backed to about midlimb and sturgeon skins to cover the sinew. I have been looking on the net on the advertisers in PA and now I am trying the forums.
Some of you might recognize me from PaleoPlanet where I use the same nickname.
Well, thats it, if you have any questions just ask
/Henrik "Fundin" Thurfjell
By the way, Fundin is a name i use in live roleplaying, its an old medieval swedish name mentioned in different places, among others the edda where Tolkien picked it up. I wasnt aware of this until I re-read The Hobbit and saw that Balin was the son of Fundin.... Under the name of Fundin Jägare (The Hunter) I enter the largest medieval longbow competition in Sweden each year.
