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Title: Interesting story
Post by: razorback on January 12, 2016, 11:33:00 AM
Just found this story and thought others might also find it interesting. Author is not terribly well educated in bowyering but explains things well for other neophytes.

   web page (http://thornews.com/2013/11/10/the-breheimen-bronze-age-bow-1300-bc/)
Title: Re: Interesting story
Post by: Jomohr84 on January 12, 2016, 03:08:00 PM
Very interesting, thanks for sharing. Exciting to see a bow from so long ago!
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Post by: monterey on January 12, 2016, 03:40:00 PM
Roy built that bow!   :)
Title: Re: Interesting story
Post by: razorback on January 12, 2016, 04:01:00 PM
Is that why it broke. It's the right weight at least.
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Post by: monterey on January 13, 2016, 09:07:00 PM
Not much fun when he doesn't see it.
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Post by: scrub-buster on January 13, 2016, 09:31:00 PM
The old man probably went to bed 3 hours ago.  He will see it in the morning.
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Post by: Roy from Pa on January 14, 2016, 05:35:00 AM
Alright girls, knock it off.. LOL
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Post by: Buemaker on January 14, 2016, 06:53:00 AM
No Roy did not make that one, it looks like one of mine.   :D
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Post by: Roy from Pa on January 14, 2016, 12:56:00 PM
Whew, and I was skeered Bue..   :)
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Post by: monterey on January 14, 2016, 01:12:00 PM
I just thought, "dang, that would fit right onto Roy's form".
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Post by: KellyG on January 14, 2016, 03:46:00 PM
Very cool and but I would think the replies to the post is correct in that it was a childs bow at just over 51".

Does anyone have a diagram of that cross section they are talking about.

make me wonder about the wood too. What hard wood. Did the have a hedge cousin over there?
Title: Re: Interesting story
Post by: monterey on January 14, 2016, 04:52:00 PM
Maybe elm?  It was a well used bow wood in the centuries preceding the classic English war bow.