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Thimo, Here is another photo of an Eskimo bow. I don't have any specifics on the bow or area the picture was taken.
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Ok my sons and I are layed up with strep-throat. My mind keeps going arround and arround this bow here. But I have no spruce.Can somebody give me a good second choice that would duplicate it's...
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in Murdoch's book ,'a study of the Eskimo Bows in the U.S. national museum' he says besides spruce ,some used cedar and further north driftwood ,barrel staves or antler. The splices were mortices...
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Thanks fellaz. I have access to these types. Can't wait to give it a whirl.
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Thimo, I'd say that pine would be a good bit weaker than spruce. Spruce is supposed to be one of the strongest woods for its weight, they logged many of the old-growth red spruce from the mountains...
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I think I will try one of these too.Thimo , have you desided which type of wood to use?I made a sinew cable backed bamboo bow once ,copied the one in TBBloosely. It came out well , But it took alot of...
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Ok, so I've been laying about going over this bow in my mind. It is a strange looking contraption I must say. The outer limbs are the strangest set up. What have them curved towards the archer instead...
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The only reason I can think of , is it keeps the cable in tight against the wood. That doesn't hold up at the splice though.What are you thinking the reason for the outer limbs curving toward the...
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Fort Eustis???I live across the river from there.Lots of seagull feathers to be found, but I've never really looked driftwood over all that much.
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The Warick or the York River?I spent alot of my childhood floating up and down the Warick River on an old box spring bed.It was our raft , and we were Tom and Huck.Trapped alot of muskrat, and tried...
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The Warick or the York River?I spent alot of my childhood floating up and down the Warick River on an old box spring bed.It was our raft , and we were Tom and Huck.Trapped alot of muskrat, and tried...
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50" to 5 feet long average length 55" . The book also lists fir as an inuit bow wood.It also says that the back is a continuos piece of sinew , 3 strand braid ,sometimes twisted cord,40 or 50 yards...
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I was also thinking of douglas fir as a possible choice as I was reading this. I experimented with cable backed bows once. For convenience sake, and the lack of sinew, I used artificial sinew as my...
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