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Posts: 132 (03/26/09 4:35 AM) |
I didn't think you were pulling it out of you ass, hehe. It was a question from a scientist to a scientist
 Done any bending-tests with numbers, or is it
a hunch from making bows from such wood?
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Posts: 1852 (03/30/09 7:51 PM) |
As far as I know the weight spreader/spike on
the bottom of the bow is called a basket. Basket is such a generic term that it may just be slang. My question is, does it come off to shoot? To me it would just about have to as the basket "nock" would be so much slower than the top nock. Either that or tiller is very different on a bow such as that. Another thing that comes to mind is the very different load a bow such as that is under. It is being stabbed downwards and being used to push off with. Can anyone enlighten me as to how a compromise between the two uses is reached? |
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Martti Kujansuu |
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Posts: 1 (04/06/09 11:27 PM) |
As for the Saami bows. The History of Laplad Wherein Are fhewed the Originals, Manners, Habits, Marriages, Conjurations, &c. of that People. Written By
John Scheffer, Profellor of Law and Rhetoric at Upfal in Sweden. At the Theater in Oxford M. DC. LXXIV [1674].
http://www.kb.se/F1700/Lapland/Lapland.htm "Chap. XX Of the Laplanders Weapons and inftruments of Hunting [...] The firft and moft frequent is a bow three ells long, two fingers broad, and an inch thick, being made of Birch and Pine (which by reafon of the refine in it is very flexible) and covered over with Birch bark, to preferve both from the weather. [...] It was then a good plain wooden long-bow, which would not require and engine to bend it, but might be drawn with an hand only. And fince I told you it was made of two pieces of wood, we will fee next how they were joined together, which is with kind of glew made of Perches skin well fcaled, that melts in ufing like ours. Martti |
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Posts: 136 (04/07/09 1:36 AM) |
Great stuff Martti! Shefferus has quite a few interesting quotes about these bows. Quest: the "basket" stays on while shooting. It is also tillered so that the lower limb is a bit stiffer than the upper, so that it will take the stresses from beeing used as a ski-stave. It's made from the measurements from the original, so I'm quite sure the original was made with the same intention. It still shoots quite well, although far from as good as any other regular bow. |
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Posts: 2 (04/07/09 8:53 AM) |
Just took these photos at the Finnish National Museum at Helsinki. This so called Stone Age "bow part" was found from Raiku village at Kangasala
in 1936. Dimensions are circa 72 x 3 cm and it's made out of juniper. The arrows are replicas.
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