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Madake and Tonkin Bamboo Backed English Longbows

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Lehtis:
Some time ago I made two Black Bamboo backed English Longbow stylish TD bows which, unfortunately, broke at the very beginning. Then a friend in Belgium contacted me and promised to send me some good bamboo as Christmas present. And so he did! I got one Tonkin and one Madake bamboo slice on top of three common Moso bamboo slices. I decided to convert those two hard bamboos to bows with Purple Heart core and Osage Orange belly. That Purple Heart I´ve bought some years ago and I succeeded to buy (under the counter) three pairs of European origin Osage Orange billets. I used Smooth-On EA40 for gluing the parts together and added some water buffalo horn pieces to convert the staves more like bows. I hope the photos tell the story clear enough.

Lehtis:
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Lehtis:
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Lehtis:
Now I´ve split this chain to two bow related chains in which you can find each bow finalized.

Madake backed here: http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,72225.0.html

Tonkin backed here: http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,72226.0.html

bassman211:
Nice.

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