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Bowyers Flote
CraigMBeckett:
--- Quote ---Craig, you seem to spend alot time of advocating for a tool which you dont use. Didnt you came to ask oppinions?
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I did not start this thread, so I did not come to ask opinions but joined in a discussion on the tool. Although I have not used one I have read informed opinion by people who have.
As for having spent a lot of time advocating its use, let me see... you have posted 9 times so far more than half of which have been disparaging of the use of the tool a tool you have not used. I have posted a 8 times, my initial posts were of pictures of the tool and of the Arms of the Worshipful company, others were asking questions of some of the comments, its only my last post that I have suggested the tool is worth a look at and trying. Now I wonder who has spent more time on the use of a tool he has not used.
Craig.
crooketarrow:
I once read that the med evil war bowyers used it on whitewood bows where bows were made in larger numbers.For the armys and in the royal ship yards where large amonts of wood can be removed easy to remove tool marks.I've never use or saw one used.Sence our bows arn't mass produced and mosty out of hardwoods and we have more detail towards workmanship and don't need such a tool.
bow-toxo:
--- Quote from: CraigMBeckett on April 01, 2010, 07:38:54 pm ---
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So you are talking of Plane makers float files.
I do not believe they or similar tools are the same thing as the flotes, the photograph I provided is I believe a modern version of the tool.
Craig.
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I don't know what a plane maker is. The flotes on the bowyers arms and other drawings as well as float files all show a surface with grooves cut vertical on one side and slanted on the other side. If that does not convince you and you choose to believe that mediaeval floats were a series of scraper blades be my guest.
CraigMBeckett:
Bow-toxo,
--- Quote ---The flotes on the bowyers arms and other drawings as well as float files all show a surface with grooves cut vertical on one side and slanted on the other side.
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I have blown up the arms and cannot see what you claim to see, I also have not seen any other drawings offered by you or anyone else, however if the blade angle does/did change from side to side I see no reason why the separate blades set in a wooden handle cannot be set that way. Now if you care to think that in the middle ages, when carbon steel was very expensive and difficult to get, that a bowyer could afford to have such a large piece of carbon steel then be my guest. I however will continue to believe in the less expensive option of blades being set into a wooden holder making a light weight a tool that can be readily sharpened, unlike the heavy and unwieldy file like implement you suggest and I will continue to do so until I see proof that suggests otherwise.
--- Quote ---I don't know what a plane maker is.
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Plane maker = maker of planes, woodworking planes, plane maker's floats are special files used in the manufacture of wooden or wooden infill planes, try googling it.
Craig
Jaro:
It is not necessary to blow the picture of coat of arms up, I too see a tool with single chisel cut akin to that of single cut rasp. There is nothing to indicate that it is piece of wood with series of scrapers. Also notice that it is straight and that the "eye" on top isnt really a handle, but rather it might serve for sticking wooden handle through, when working on long piece of material spokeshave-style.
--- Quote ---I did not start this thread, so I did not come to ask opinions but joined in a discussion on the tool. Although I have not used one I have read informed opinion by people who have
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- You seem to imply that my opinion and some others opininon is somehow "uninformed", when appealing to invisible and unknown authority. Who are those "informed people pls? What we seem to get from you since begining is "other converse" "informed opinion" etc... Who are those people and what are their credentials?
J.
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