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How War Bows were manufactured for wars
Del the cat:
--- Quote from: Badger on March 07, 2014, 10:37:13 pm --- If a bowyer were not held to a specific draw weight but instead an acceptable range I can easily see a bowyer making 2 bows a day with mostly a draw knife. When you are making that many bows you can pretty much finish it without even putting a string on it.
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Yup, once you get you eye in for a certain wood, style, size and draw weight it get much easier.
I've just gone from making 100# @32" to making 45# @ 30"... nightmare.
Now I'm trying to get back to 85# and I'm in danger of coming in under weight.
It's easy to get your eye in if you are makin' 'em all V similar.
I agree 2 a day no prob, especially if someone else is doiing the horn nocks.
Why I've may half a dozen this very morning! ;) >:D
Del
toomanyknots:
I think it would be a cool contest to have a bunch of bowyers see how many bows they could make from rough split stave to "shootable - ready - to - apply - finish" bows in a day. Maybe the winner could get a bottle of advil or something, :).
WillS:
I'd pay to see you guys do that! It takes me four months to work out the best center line and taper at the stage I'm at!
It would certainly make for better viewing than the rubbish on tv these days.
On a serious note, I do think the top guys like Jaro for instance are able to crack out these bows super fast, and that's with (I'm assuming) far less time learning and watching older generations doing it as they would have in the middle ages. I've also been told by a couple of bowyers I personally respect highly that the longer you take tillering the worse the bow performance so establishing shapes and tapers early on and only minimal bending on the tiller seems very logical. It's something I didn't realise at first. I would rush the first stage, and get very rough staves up on the tiller and spend days at a time sorting out hinges, stiff spots, weaker limbs and so on which is clearly the wrong approach!
Badger:
As Del said the key is making bows of similar length and draw weight. Simply sight down a limb pressed to the floor and making the other limb feel the same will pretty much deliver a finsihed bow without really bending it much. When I am changing length and style every day as I often do it really slows me down, but even at that I have no problem going from a raw stave to a shooting bow in about 4 hours if I choose to.
killir duck:
--- Quote from: toomanyknots on March 08, 2014, 10:03:39 am ---I think it would be a cool contest to have a bunch of bowyers see how many bows they could make from rough split stave to "shootable - ready - to - apply - finish" bows in a day. Maybe the winner could get a bottle of advil or something, :).
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Well I bet Blackhawk would probably win that without even trying.
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