Holmegaard question?

[Springbuck]

I have done a lam Holmegaard, although they haven't been pretty.  I lammed up a boofloo and black locust blank with a short power lam at the handle.  I added long reverse-wedges through the outer limbs.  I was trying to make it so the thickening of the limb happened just before the limbs narrow in side to side width, but the wedges were too thin and too gradually tapered.  I had to add another set just like them under the backing, which was linen cloth.

  I glued it up with just a tiny bit of reflex only in the skinny part of the limb.  It shot very well and was really easy to tiller.  The inner limbs were parallel in thickness and width, about 2", and the stiff ends were just a bit more than 1/3 the limb length.

  Unfortunately I killed it trying to mess with it, as I often do, and i have been scheming an all wood, no linen version, as soon as I get to it.

  In the meantime, I made an elm copy, but it came in low weight.

[RayMO]

I have not seen this thread before.
Wow! Those bows are really something.

[Springbuck]

I was gonna tell Glenn that I also especially liked the bow on the far right in the picture.  It looks almost like a Holemegaard/Sudbury hybrid, very eye-catching, and I bet it shoots very quiet in the hand.  Congratulate your friend for me..

[Pat B]

Beautiful bows Glenn. That is an excellent shape and style for hunting.     Pat

[vanislebowyer]

i might be the guy bernie was talking about who made osage/hickory bows on that other site...i'm radius on primitive archer...i love the holmegaard that i made then, i just recently traded it for a great painting that my friend robert ives created...

[dutchwarbow]

stringstretcher, ask yourself a few questions;

- what is a holmegaard design?
- why couldn't you make a laminated holmegaard?

let me answer these for you;
- we usually call a bow a holmegaard when it's got long, stiff, narrow tips. these can run fluently into the bending part(like the 4th bow in glenns picture), or pretty abrupt, with a so called 'shoulder' like the first and third.

- I don't see any reason why you can't add this feature to a bbo.

Nick

[bigcountry]

All I can say is after seeing your fine bamboo and IPE bows in Baltimre, I can't wait until next year to see your laminated holmegaaard