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Gluing Sinew
donnieonetrack:
I don't mean to be a stick in the mud, but if you use TB aren't you getting away from the primitive aspect?
D. Tiller:
Its a sliding gradient of primitivness! ;D
Kegan:
--- Quote from: donnieonetrack on May 25, 2007, 05:37:46 pm ---I don't mean to be a stick in the mud, but if you use TB aren't you getting away from the primitive aspect?
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Well, alot of use dacron and other modern materials for bow strings and not sinew or rawhide or plant fibers. The rules aren't that rigid- as long as it doesn't have wheels or fiberglass pretty much ;D
a finnish native:
you will probably think of me as a racial conservative son of a **** who should die, but a bow is not primitive to me, if powertools are used on it, if ti has a string from modern materials, if the glues used are modern. ;D ;D ;D
but then again what primitives are we? we sit on a computer and use digital cameras for our primitive bows. just some kind of wannabe primitives :-\
Kegan:
--- Quote from: a finnish native on May 26, 2007, 07:38:00 am ---you will probably think of me as a racial conservative son of a **** who should die, but a bow is not primitive to me, if powertools are used on it, if ti has a string from modern materials, if the glues used are modern. ;D ;D ;D
but then again what primitives are we? we sit on a computer and use digital cameras for our primitive bows. just some kind of wannabe primitives :-\
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No problem. But that can go pretty far for the sake of primitive- using stone tools you crafted yourself out of materials you found at hand and did it all outside or in a primitive shelter such as a teepee :o.
There are many levels. Same as everything. Trad shooters don't like compounds but use fiberglass- it just depends on how far you go.
And my little sinew bow isn't supposed to be primitive- just a good little hunter ;D!
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