Main Discussion Area > English Warbow
How War Bows were manufactured for wars
WillS:
Knowledge? I don't know anything, I just like theorising. It's what I got into bows for in the first place :)
I'd love to get round to making a bowyers flote one day. I can imagine that it would make very short work of a stave, at least getting it to rough tillering proportions.
Badger:
I'd love to get round to making a bowyers flote one day????? What is a bowyers float??
mikekeswick:
A series of blades mounted in a wooden block that has a handle. Whatever shape you want to make can be ground into the blades. It is used similary to a scraper mounted in a carrier.
Del the cat:
There are some nice pics if you google images molding plane.
I'd imagine a bowyers flote would be a long version of one of them.
Dunno if they would actually need a shaped blade,maybe a concave one would be handy.
Del
WillS:
This is the badge of the Worshipful Company of Bowyers and shows three bowyers' flotes on the shield
There's also this image
Something similar is this wooden block plane which is much easier to get hold of, or even make and I've seen Chris Boyton using one of these. The blade is toothed, which leaves nice grooves in the wood. It has no bias to grain, so it will square off any wood without getting caught or digging into knots or grain swirls.
I would imagine it was a very common tool - I guess the stave would be inspected, marked up, squared off and tapered with the block plane then the edges simply rounded and the bend checked and refined.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version