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gregLewis:
Chuck-

How did your all bamboo bow turn out? I'm thinking about trying to build one, and would appreciate your advice.

Thanks

Greg

stickbender:

     I don't know how to build one, but Fred Bear killed an African Elephant with a hundred pound all bamboo bow, and a six foot arrow.  So an all bamboo bow is not a fantasy.  I have no idea if correct or not, but I would just get as thick a piece of Bamboo, and shape it to the shape you want, and then take succeeding pieces, and sand and shape and laminate them to the thickness you want, or laminate them, and then shape them, and then shape the bow in a form, then scrape the belly, and tiller it as you would a wood bow.  And that is just purly guessing.  I have absolutely no experience or practical knowledge in that area.
Good luck, and let us know how it turned out.  Oh yeah, and lots of pictures.

                                                                                      Wayne

Kegan:

--- Quote from: stickbender on September 03, 2008, 12:40:24 pm ---
     I don't know how to build one, but Fred Bear killed an African Elephant with a hundred pound all bamboo bow, and a six foot arrow.  So an all bamboo bow is not a fantasy.  I have no idea if correct or not, but I would just get as thick a piece of Bamboo, and shape it to the shape you want, and then take succeeding pieces, and sand and shape and laminate them to the thickness you want, or laminate them, and then shape them, and then shape the bow in a form, then scrape the belly, and tiller it as you would a wood bow.  And that is just purly guessing.  I have absolutely no experience or practical knowledge in that area.
Good luck, and let us know how it turned out.  Oh yeah, and lots of pictures.

                                                                                      Wayne

--- End quote ---

I thought it was Hill who used the bamboo longbow, pulling 115#. I thought Fred Bear used one of his fiberglass laminated recruves?

stickbender:

     Keegan, I could be wrong, it sure wouldn't be the first time.  I rembember reading it, in either outdoor life, or field and stream.  I was pretty sure it was Fred Bear, and it was a bamboo bow.  But it was a long time ago, when I was about 14 or so.  And like I said, I could be wrong.  But anyway, an elephant was killed with one.  Hill might have repeated what Fred did or vice versa.

                                                                   Actually I have never been wrong, except once, and I only thought I was wrong, but I was actually right!

                                                                     Wayne

AndrewS:
Vison Minor builds a lot of bows with a bamboo backing and a bamboo facing on the belly. I think this bows are built in the way modern glasfiber bows were build.

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