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Backwards Bow Build-a-Long - Mollegabet Style

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heartrnurse:
I guess I should better ask...why do you choose pine tar rather than other sealents?

JackCrafty:
The pine tar is for sealing, yes, and also because it was probably available to early Europeans dating as far back as the use of birch bark tar.  Pine tar was known in ancient Greece and Otzi used birch bark tar as glue on his arrows.  The tar was produced in stone kilns covered and sealed with dirt, with large fires set on top.

At this early stage, I use straight pine tar.  When the bow is ready to be finished, I will mix the pine tar with boiled linseed oil and apply it over the entire bow.

JackCrafty:
Just some links that I don't want to loose track of... so, I'm posting them here.

http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,22820.0.html
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,23766.0.html
---http://paleoplanet69529.yuku.com/topic/27645#.UXH4zYLrkZ0
---http://tradgang.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=print_topic;f=125;t=005951
---http://www.forum.arcus-lucznictwo.pl/viewtopic.php?p=40310
---http://what-when-how.com/ancient-europe/the-mesolithic-of-northern-europe-postglacial-foragers-80004000-b-c/

http://www.lwl.org/pressemitteilungen/mitteilung.php?urlID=16181#.UXH6U4LrkZ0
http://www.fletchers-corner.de/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=13728&start=15
http://www.fletchers-corner.de/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=16998
http://www.bueogpil.dk/index.php?name=Sections&req=viewarticle&artid=9&page=6

I'm also assuming that the cross sections in the picture below are looking from the tip toward the handle.  If that is indeed the case, the growth rings show that the back of the bow is the interior of the tree.  I also assume standard drafting/illustrating rules were followed:  middle view is "front", left view is "left side", and cross sections are "top" views.  With this in mind, the stiff part at the end of the limb tip is actually "trapped" on the back with the widest part on the belly.

All this assumes that the fragment is actually part of a bow and that the fragment is oriented properly in the reconstruction.  Very speculative, I know.  I'm going to assume that the edges of the wood are rounded because of decay and I will build my bow with a more rectangular cross section than the piece illustrated.  It will still be bi-convex, however, like the original.

JackCrafty:
This is NOT going to be the type of bow found in at the Holmegaard site in Denmark.

---http://mgavri.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-holmegaard-bow.html

Newindian:
I have started to use only heart wood with my ash juniper and I can't tell the difference,besides the color

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