Primitive short dogwood shooter with sinew string
Bowwood: Dogwood (Cornus Sanguinea) saplingLength: 54 1/8"Handle width: 1"Handle heigth: 1 1/8"Fade out: 1 1/2"Limb tickness, end of fade out: 2/3", upper limb 1" longer than lower limbNock:...
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Outstanding! The bow is fantastic, as is the string. I haven't yet made a sinew string. Now you have inspired me to do so. Thanks for the inspiration!TomP.S., nice arrow too. What is the arrow made...
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Thanks Tom. The arrow is made of dogwood too. Fletching from grey goose feathers, with selfnock.
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Hartung,Always nice to see a deadly weapon emerging from lowly materials such as a length of half-peeled sapling and some deer offal!How do you rate C. sanguinea as bowwood? Workability, strengths /...
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Tuukka,Workability is excellent compared to dry wych elm for example. This sapling has been reduced with drawknife, spoke shave and a carpeters (scraper?, dont know the englisch word). Strength and...
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