rowan sapling bow
hey guys! finally, i got at least a few photos. sadly, i didn’t have anyone handy yet who could assist in a presentable full draw photo. anyway, i am a bit unsure about a few things and would like...
View ArticleRe: rowan sapling bow
Nice job, I think you are on the right track with your thoughts around tillering
View ArticleRe: rowan sapling bow
thanks a lot fundin. i always wonder in retrospect – all the while i pondered how to handle that s-curve, i could have asked here and have the matter resolved. but no, i always try to make sense of it...
View ArticleRe: rowan sapling bow
Great job! Rowan is gorgeous! It's the prettiest wood I've come across where I live (Sweden). If you remove a few growth rings of the creamy sapwood you can get some of that coffee brown heart wood as...
View ArticleRe: rowan sapling bow
thank you frodolf! that is interesting to hear, about rowan crysaling easily. i will keep an eye on how it develops over time and try to learn from it. it might make a good practise wood: saplings are...
View ArticleRe: rowan sapling bow
It's probably the same species then. In Germanic/Viking mythology, Rowan was known as "Thor's help" och Thor's savior" as a rowan tree helped save the thunder god Thor and his brother Loke when they...
View ArticleRe: rowan sapling bow
frodolf wrote:Maybe the saplings are stronger then more mature trees? That could explain our different experiences since I've only worked with rather big trees (6-8" diameter). Maybe younger trees are...
View ArticleRe: rowan sapling bow
Looks pretty good to my eye. I am also not too good at bows with "off" symetry from the side. One thing I do is carefully rough out the limbs (or whole bow depending on style) to a very consistent...
View ArticleRe: rowan sapling bow
thanks springbuck, that’s what i did as well. callipers for establishing initial dimensions, check what bend this results in and adjust from there. on another note, frodolf and perttime, i found a...
View ArticleRe: rowan sapling bow
Well, I've never had an elm bow brake unless there were actual weaknesses on the back (two times, as I recall, both from rotten twigs). Rowan seems to break for me despite good efforts, primarily from...
View ArticleRe: rowan sapling bow
i didn’t intend this like "look what i found, so i guess your experience is invalid!" – but maybe both statements are like two sides of a coin. one way to characterise it as an elm substitute would be...
View ArticleRe: rowan sapling bow
No, I didn't interpret it that way either! I think it's interesting that experiences can differ so! :-) Would be interesting with a comparative bending test between elm and rowan...
View ArticleRe: rowan sapling bow
Frodolf, calipoers are great, and before I got some, I used to just kludge together some sort of measuring spanner, like a notched piece of a board, etc....but they only help me with two things;...
View Article
