My son and I were viewing a bunch of Trad Gang forum posts last Sunday morning and came across the scavenger bow challenge. We had fun brainstorming about what we could use to make a bow and came up with the following idea. We didn’t see a minimum age for this contest so my son Colton (age 8) will enter and I will help him along as needed (he is the one who had the most input on the idea and, at his young age, already has three bows under his bib belt.
We will use an old hockey stick with a broken blade for the bow, a section of a hockey puck for the tip overlays, netting from an old hockey net for building up the handle, and hockey tape to wrap the handle. We plan to keep the original hockey stick lettering on the back of the bow.
We searched for a bunch of old hockey sticks and found one that may work…it appears to have a white wood core (hickory and ash are common woods used for making hockey sticks) with a darker laminated wood on the sides. We are hoping that the laminate on one side of the bow will hold up and not separate from itself or the white wood core. Because this bow will be my son’s, we can make it a bit lighter and hopefully not strain the bow wood too much.
Regarding the tip overlays, we think that the hard black plastic puck material should serve its purpose…we will need to figure out the best way to cut it and glue it to the bow.
Because the hockey stick shaft is narrow, we decided that we could keep with the hockey theme and use netting from an old hockey net to build it out a bit and create some “ribbing” for gripping and an arrow rest. Old hockey tape will be use to hold the netting in place.
We assume someone has also come up with this idea in the past…any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
Dino and Colton
Hockey stick
Hockey stick shaft text
Close up of hockey stick shaft wood
Topic: FIRST ANNUAL SCAVENGER BOW CHALLENGE SIGNUP THREAD (Read 2706 times)
