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| macheteman |
 Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 7:48 pm |
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so, does anyone here make bows? bowmaking is sort of my new hobbie. i just finished one. the trick is getting the right wood. Cedar limbs and saplings work great. really anything in the cedar family works well, yew, cyprus, etc. i’ve heard that hickory and orange trees work well also.
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| ingold55 |
| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:40 pm |
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All I know is to get a good young stick, and bend it to your specifications.
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| CarpeGuitarrem |
| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:09 pm |
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| Hmm...I think using bows would be cool, does that count? |
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| Hazael |
| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:47 pm |
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I made several bows out of all kinds of wood. I found that around here young pine trees stripped down work best for the bow.
I made one at a college survival course and we almost killed a squirrel with it. I got within 10 yards from about 5 deer, but I didnt want to shoot at it. The proffessor laughed at me when I told him about the bow and when I showed it to him he was surprised to see it had around 40lbs of pull on it. He shot an arrow at least 100 feet into the air and watched it stick 3 inches into the ground about 200 feet away. |
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| AgentDrake |
| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 5:22 pm |
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My friend (anyone remember willturner2 from awhile back on the D boards?) had one that he made that was about two and a half feet tall, and could easily sink crummy little homemade arrows three or four inches into trees from about 30 or 40 yards. That little thing was absolutely insane. If I remember right -- and I probably don’t -- it was made of young crabapple.
Then some sort of dispute arose over it, due to a cranky neighbor complaining about him using it, and he figured it would be easer just to get rid of it than argue it all out with the police.  He tired making more like it afterwards, but they were all pretty pathetic. |
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| macheteman |
| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 7:47 pm |
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| i’ve killed a rabbit with may first bow, which was basicly the same as my new one. i’ve never found pine trees to work that well, they always seemed too flimsy, but i’ll have to give it a try. |
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| syndrome |
| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:30 pm |
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I tried making one out of a random stick when I was younger.
Though, i’ve heard the trick is to polish it with a rock... makes it stronger or something. Takes a looong time tho :/ |
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| macheteman |
| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 10:49 pm |
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hmm, i don’t really see how that would strengthen it. seems like it would just make it smooth or something. but what do i know?
i wish i could get my hands on some yew limbs. |
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| syndrome |
| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 11:29 pm |
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| macheteman |
| Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 8:32 am |
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| methinks deer intestines would work better to make it stronger... |
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