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Arthur Herrmann:
Howard Hill has been acknowledged as the first white man to kill an elephant with a bow without using poison or explosive tips.
He killed three.
shikari:
Have you tried a Bhutanese bow,they are all bamboo,extremely simple and smooth,you could have one ready in an hour,you could also try the short bow used by the naga's of India,simply two pieces of bamboo glued together with the nodes alternating,the belly slat is usually smoked bamboo to temper it sort to say.The Bhutanese bow is just two pieces of bamboo overlapping in the centre to form the handle,as simple as they are to make,these bows can easily go 50#.
GlassKnapper:
I have one that i started making a few months ago, but i never finished it. I started out with a piece of bamboo with a diameter of about four inches, i cut a piece out of the wall about 2 1/2 inches across and like someone else said i started fitting subsequently smaller pices into the larger piece. I tried to tiller the pieces individually since one end is thicker thant the other being made of bamboo. By the time I quit working on it i had a bow that was 3 layers thick, and almost six feet long with what must have been a 15# pull. I know absolutely almost nothing of how to make bows. Hhaha hope that helps :o
Mike Routen:
Chuck,
I don't know if this is what you have in mind, but I've met a local bowyer that was building all-boo bows. He was using vertical-laminate flooring as the belly and backing it with regular bamboo backing.
The vertical laminate flooring has the bamboo stacked on its side when looking at the belly of the bow. These were glued up with about 5 inches of reflex and ended up almost neutral once the belly had taken its set. These bows had amazingly low mass weight and were supposed to be great performers.
The bows were made more in the flatbow design than the english longbow, so I don't know if this is what you are looking for or not. If you are interested, I can dig out the templates that he gave me and let you know what the dimensions are.
Good luck with this project.
Mike
mullet:
Robustus on this site( James Parker), taught Vinson how to make bows and makes some fine, fast , all bamboo bows.PM James.
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