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Getting to full draw without losing thickness or gaining set?

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stuckinthemud:
We have, from top to bottom the Skane Lillohus Lockbow:  tiller, bow (belly up), bolt (arrow) an a completely undocumented crossbow lath also found in the moat durng the 1939-44 "dig".  The bow itself is really interesting, with a deflex-reflex limb and a straight limb, the weaker R/D limb was left thicker than the other, they didn't bother completely cleaning off all the inner bark, and the wood is extremely knotty.  The original bowyer was very skillful to get a working bow from that stick.




Check out that bottom bow!  I cannot imagine how you could turn a stick like that into a working bow, not only is it really, really lumpy, its also very short - its somewhere around 70 to 75cm ttt (28 to 30 "), but, maybe they didn't turn it into a working bow and threw it into the moat in disgust...

Hamish:
Wow! Never seen any photo's of this bow, just drawings. There doesn't appear to be any lugs that hold the bow on the tiller, nor any tickler /lever
to push up the string from its groove, to release the bolt. Do you know if any of these parts actually still exist?

stuckinthemud:
The tickler and the pin appear in the 1940s archaeological drawings but are no longer with the tiller and  lath.  There weren’t any lugs on the bridle, the lath is lashed onto the end of the tiller, no bridle as such.

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