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Jaro:
Well I have my scrapers made from old sawblades and such, some of them profiled, but as I look at that thing good deal of versatility I get with any scraper is lost due to fact that it has such awfully big and chunky handle and the use on selfbows will be somehow limited as it wont reach into "bumps" and wont coppy the character - and should I want to make backed bow I can always use small scraper plane which will give me all the benefits (such as smooth surface) but good deal more of controll.
Besides, what this thema does in "warbow" escapes me.
J.
Loki:
--- Quote ---Besides, what this thema does in "warbow" escapes me.
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I think TS has posted in this section because these tools were used to make Warbows in England.The only one I have seen was in a museum,it was a hefty piece of kit! Nothing like a scraper,I think Floats were used as we would use a Rasp or surform.
Jaro:
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--- Quote ---Besides, what this thema does in "warbow" escapes me.
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I think TS has posted in this section because these tools were used to make Warbows in England.The only one I have seen was in a museum,it was a hefty piece of kit! Nothing like a scraper,I think Floats were used as we would use a Rasp or surform.
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Were they? Because as far as I know we dont have any tools positivelly identified as bowyers tools of trade.
We have descriptions of operations for which workers were paid such as "chipping" - which is most probably shaping the stave by small axe and some which cannot be tied to the specific tool like "bending and afterbending" - yet there is none which would be positivelly tied to such a tool as above, much less on the split stave bow, where versatility in copying the character and treatment of knots would be preferable quality. (Frankly I dont even think that facete-like belly of MR bows is result of scraping - since that produces much better surface than that - but its rather a sign of expert handling of spokeshave.)
That is from position of somebody who makes also musical instruments which requires good deal of scraping where modern sanding is more or less prohibited.
If you ask me the tool above looks like some more modern tools used by cabinet makers for finishing veener surfaces on large areas such as table tops - which is something medieval cabinet maker would probably use to smooth out the last handplaning marks on something like table or bench, but all my experience in making bows says it is not very good tool for it.
To comment further - we have evidence of both rasps and specialised files with woodworking "single" cut both in archeological record and record of use in various woodworking crafts - thus if the rasp was needed, mediveal woodworker would take a rasp.
J.
Loki:
The artifact I seen was in Bowes Museum North Yorkshire (2003) It didnt look like the one pictured above,more like a Block plane.
thebowesmuseum.org.uk/
Justin Snyder:
--- Quote from: Loki on March 09, 2010, 11:34:07 am ---The artifact I seen was in Bowes Museum North Yorkshire (2003) It didnt look like the one pictured above,more like a Block plane.
thebowesmuseum.org.uk/
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How do you find anything on that site. That is one of the most confusing sites I have been on in a long time. :-\
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