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a little fun project

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Aksel:
Very cool looking bow. Very much like a swiss stone age bow from yew with HLD on the inner limbs and narrow outer limbs. The staining looks great too!

Selfbowman:
These bows look cool. Are there any performance advantages to this design ? Nicely done sir.

simk:
Thanks Aksel - maybe you could send me some pics and dimensions from that swiss bow - that maybe a project  :)
Thanks Arvin - I just think its a very smart, totally logic design - the andaman bow. I'm totally fascinated about it. What you learn in school as rule no1 is that the width taper mirrors your bend. Nothing paralell here, its all one flow of width taper. working and tillering that shape is cool. The bow shoots pretty good but the wood is not high performance. Done with yew probably very fast. I (-S

I found a few bows on the net. mostly from auctions. they come in lenths between 60 and 85" and the shapes are all a little different. I wonder what wood they used....mangroves? Palm?

cheers

simk:
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Aksel:
Hi Simk, here´s a drawing from Jürgen Junkmanns book Pfeil & Bogen and photos of both limbs of my replica I made a while back. Far from as pronounced features as on your bow but still... I have a thread of it somewhere here too.

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