Primitive Archer

Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: luke the drifter on November 15, 2012, 07:20:54 pm

Title: orcbow
Post by: luke the drifter on November 15, 2012, 07:20:54 pm

is there a detailed set of instructions for building one like the one from LOTR?  i would almost be willing to pay for a set.  i need a project that would require patience and concentration for a while.
i love the sounds it makes.  sounds like it would break. 

Title: Re: orcbow
Post by: Dictionary on November 15, 2012, 09:17:56 pm

Here's a vid im sure you've probably already seen. Maybe you can base it on this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9regBz2cQQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9regBz2cQQ)

Title: Re: orcbow
Post by: Weylin on November 16, 2012, 11:59:59 am

Ha, most of us are trying to make our bows quieter. I take it you're not a hunter.  :P

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Post by: killir duck on November 16, 2012, 12:26:30 pm

Quote from: Weylin on November 16, 2012, 11:59:59 am

Ha, most of us are trying to make our bows quieter. I take it you're not a hunter.  :P

  hahaha my thoughts exactly but it would be cool to know how they did that, computer editing perhaps?

Title: Re: orcbow
Post by: k-hat on November 16, 2012, 02:00:06 pm

ya it always cracks me up when i watch movies and it seems they ALWAYS have some kind of creaking noise when a bow is drawn. If they wanna be realistic, the archer should be flinching every time he draws.  Of course i guess orcs were expendable and were too dumb to be bowyers so maybe they didn't care ::)

Title: Re: orcbow
Post by: kevinsmith5 on November 16, 2012, 02:44:10 pm

I don't guess it's to big a deal if your bow is a little creaky when you're surrounded by 10,000 screaming orcs....

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Post by: Tom Leemans on November 16, 2012, 04:05:59 pm

LOL Kevin! Keep something solid behind you and shoot everything in front of you!

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Post by: kevinsmith5 on November 16, 2012, 05:41:04 pm

One does tend to doubt that archers who fired from amazed formations at massed formations worried about noise from the bow. A warbow and a hunting bow are two very different things.

Title: Re: orcbow
Post by: loefflerchuck on November 16, 2012, 06:22:33 pm

You will get that sound by making a bend through the handle bow and putting a handle section on the belly that is not glued, only wrapped with sinew or rawhide....

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Post by: soy on November 16, 2012, 07:11:19 pm

J dub was commenting a while back about a bow that made a creaky saddle sound in jest... his dreams may have came true >:D

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Post by: PatM on November 16, 2012, 07:40:59 pm

Stack a couple of layers of wood and put some dry chrometanned leather between and lash the two layers together. That will creak nicely.

Title: Re: orcbow
Post by: skyarrow on November 16, 2012, 10:16:03 pm

Here you go bud thi is the guys website from the vid it has a some what of a build along on the creaking bow
https://sites.google.com/site/orcbowworld/my-first-orcbow

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Post by: BowEd on November 16, 2012, 10:32:59 pm

Remember that creaking noise old Shwartzenpickles' bow made to kill the predator in the Predator movie?

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Post by: skyarrow on November 16, 2012, 10:48:45 pm

Heck yeah i do iv always wanted to make that bow ;) iv read that it actually was a working bow