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Osage Holmegård (fulldraw p.2)
George Tsoukalas:
Very nice bow. Congratulations. Enjoy. Jawge
Ryano:
nice bow tiller looks pretty darn good to me. Looks like the stave has some prop twist, could be making the top limb look stronger. :)
jpitts:
Good Looking bow. Prettiest piece of Osage I ever saw
DCM:
Kviljo,
"Humm, I would have to disagree. :) What is the reason to think that they were "backward"-bows?"
I could easily be wrong. And please don't consider my comments critcism. I'll have to look around and see where I got the idea of the backward bow.
"Also, take a look at e.g. Gad Rausings "The bow" (1967), or Jurgen Junkmanns "Pfeil und bogen"(2001). Both have drawings, and the latter a picture of one of the Holmegårds. They vary from almost none to quite abrupt narrowing at approx. midlimb. Yep, there's about 24 more or less complete Holmegårds from Denmark, plus at least one from Sweden, according to Junkmanns."
Again I'd defer to your knowledge. I think my mistake was assume the archtypical design with an abrupt transition was the only example.
"I'd love to read that article by the way! Does it exist on the net somewhere still?"
I don't see a section on this site with a link to the archive of old published articles. They may have discontinued that practice. But I know I had the magazine it was in. If I can find it I'll send it to you. I'll look around this weekend. I think I've kept all my old PAs.
Again, it's a great bow, and evidently very much a Holmegard.
DanaM:
That is perhaps one of the best looking bows I've seen posted, nice tiller and the clean simple lines truly appeal to me.
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