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Mary Rose Replica MR81A3966
medicinewheel:
Love it!
JNystrom:
Oh thats a really nice bow! The colorful string sits nicely with the creamy white sapwood and red heartwood.
peacefullymadewarbows:
Thank you both! Yeah I really enjoy the play between the colors of the wood, horn, and string on this one. Amazing something so pretty can also be so dynamic.
WillS:
I made a point of getting my hands on 3966 over the weekend, and if it's any help, it's one of the prettiest bows in the collection! The WoW measurements are quite far out (as with most of the bows) and it's actually very small in the hand, but the grain is exceptional, far too tight to count.
It's one of the better finished bows too, with virtually no sign of the faceted edges that are the surface finish of most of them - it's been gone over with a sharp edged tool like a scraper to take all the corners off.
The bow itself is very round in section, almost circular and the tips are absolutely miniscule. 10mm at the start of the horn stain with tiny grooves in the wood where the string groove was cut through the horn.
There's next to no sapwood either, about 1.5mm in the middle.
What's funny is that on such a pretty bow, with such attention to detail on the finishing, the "bowyers mark" is an ugly great cross scratched into the side with something thick and blunt. Imagine a ballpoint pen which has run out of ink and you'll be close.
meanewood:
Nice bow PMW.
I declare you an outlaw for the string choice however!
Hey Will, interesting observation about the clumsy bowyers mark on the original.
I've often wondered if some of the marks were made by the user/owner of a particular bow, but when they were stored in chests on the ship, it makes sense that they were part of the ships compliment.
I know that I am very careful when applying my mark to a finished bow and hate it when it's not perfect, but I'm not churning out multiple bows a day, like they were!
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