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Offline BowSlayer

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Re: Mollegabet based on Half Eye's Evil Baby Bro ~ pictures
« Reply #15 on: November 01, 2013, 05:37:29 pm »
Cool bow. Ive also made a molle. Im also looking out for fallen trees but the council keep cutting them up >:(
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Offline Hrothgar

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Re: Mollegabet based on Half Eye's Evil Baby Bro ~ pictures
« Reply #16 on: November 01, 2013, 09:21:47 pm »
Good looking bow, really like the tiller too.
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Re: Mollegabet based on Half Eye's Evil Baby Bro ~ pictures
« Reply #17 on: February 09, 2018, 10:59:14 am »
Wanted to give this one a bump because I love mollies. (and the pics are still visible).  57" NTN doing 30" for over a minute is crazy.  I like maple, but that is impressive amount of strain.  Well tillered.  I need to start shortening my molly designs I guess.  I get nervous doing 30" with my 66" design.  Guess I'm a big chicken.


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Re: Mollegabet based on Half Eye's Evil Baby Bro ~ pictures
« Reply #18 on: February 09, 2018, 01:23:48 pm »
Wanted to give this one a bump because I love mollies. (and the pics are still visible).  57" NTN doing 30" for over a minute is crazy.  I like maple, but that is impressive amount of strain.  Well tillered.  I need to start shortening my molly designs I guess.  I get nervous doing 30" with my 66" design.  Guess I'm a big chicken.

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Re: Mollegabet based on Half Eye's Evil Baby Bro ~ pictures
« Reply #19 on: February 09, 2018, 02:30:34 pm »
Fantastic bow and its really great to have a woman (and another Brit!) on here!  :)
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Re: Mollegabet based on Half Eye's Evil Baby Bro ~ pictures
« Reply #20 on: February 09, 2018, 02:46:26 pm »
Congrats to you and your daughter,nice bow for sure.i like the bladed style levers rather than the rounded .

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Re: Mollegabet based on Half Eye's Evil Baby Bro ~ pictures
« Reply #21 on: February 11, 2018, 06:58:56 am »
Very nicely done .
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Re: Mollegabet based on Half Eye's Evil Baby Bro ~ pictures
« Reply #22 on: June 06, 2019, 10:29:21 am »
hey, it's been a long time i know, but thanks for the continued warm comments and guess what?!

we finally got around to making an arrow from scratch. here's some pics:

these were the ingredients all gathered from nearby woodlands (ahem, except for olive oil required for making vegetable glycerin)


that's rabbit poo



charcoal and cordage made from carded nettle fibres



canada goose feathers and dried yucca leaves -yea, ok, the yucca came from the garden but we could have used anything,, ie: water-iris 



pine resin



then we made a little fire to straighten the hazel shafts over



and to prepare the pine-pitch. we also made some other (vegetable) glue using cornstarch, vinegar, and glycerol made from olive oil and lye from oak ashes. but mostly we used the pine-pitch resin which works really well but goes hard very quickly so is sometimes fiddly to apply.



i knapped the arrow-head from the bottom of a glass ale-bottle. decent flint nodules are hard to come by in my neck of the woods and i didn't want to smash so many up with my lack of stone-working skills haha,



here's some pics of the arrow-head loosly mounted in the hazel shaft:









and here it is once we mounted it



and here's the fletching which we really struggled with tbh lol. imp-child demanded that we only uses plant-based materials throughout this entire build,, so we tried to stick the fletching using some glue made from corn-flour but in contrast to the pine-pitch, that stuff took waaaaay long to set. lol. sigh. so it ended up being a bit messy by the time we'd got everything properly stuck together. and bound with yucca fibres for good measure.



..and a final pic of our first home-made arrow! woot!



Thanks again for all the kindly comments! i really cannot wait to have a go at making another bow for myself one of these fine days! 

all pics can be found  here on flickr









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Offline DC

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Re: Mollegabet based on Half Eye's Evil Baby Bro ~ pictures
« Reply #23 on: June 06, 2019, 12:16:10 pm »
Great job! What kind of plant did the feathers come from? ;D ;D ;D ;D

Offline upstatenybowyer

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Re: Mollegabet based on Half Eye's Evil Baby Bro ~ pictures
« Reply #24 on: June 06, 2019, 02:36:29 pm »
That's awesome!
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Re: Mollegabet based on Half Eye's Evil Baby Bro ~ pictures
« Reply #25 on: June 06, 2019, 11:58:57 pm »
Very nice continued work with the arrow and glass point.

Offline ohma2

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Re: Mollegabet based on Half Eye's Evil Baby Bro ~ pictures
« Reply #26 on: June 07, 2019, 11:38:08 am »
Best wishes to you and your daughters future journy in archery ,i truly hope it lasts for decades.

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Re: Mollegabet based on Half Eye's Evil Baby Bro ~ pictures
« Reply #27 on: June 08, 2019, 08:09:47 am »
What kind of plant did the feathers come from? ;D ;D ;D ;D

lol errr... goose-grass ?  :D