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Offline LittleBen

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Re: long bow styles
« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2013, 09:09:00 PM »
Kevin, agreed 100%.

Offline k-hat

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Re: long bow styles
« Reply #21 on: January 21, 2013, 09:34:00 AM »
Quite dif from pyramid.  A pyramid has pretty uniform thickness, and width tapers evenly from fade to tip.  A meare heath is essentially the opposite:  width is uniform (parallel) most of the length, and the thickness tapers uniformly from fade to tip.

The rawhide wrapping was to replicate the historical bow, don't think it was necessary at all as far as function.

Frosty, don't forget to make you a tillering gizmo (there's a build-a-long on this site), it's especially useful with the pyramid, but can be used on others as well.
Kevin

"he hath bent his bow, and made it ready . . .his arrow shall go forth as the lightning" - Psalm 7:12, Zech. 9:14

Offline Frosty the Bowman

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Re: long bow styles
« Reply #22 on: January 21, 2013, 09:52:00 AM »
K-hat,

thanks, good info to know.
I had just seen a post about "the gizmo" the other day, and found a whole thread about it. Eric's litte gizmo looked to be very helpful so I have plans to make one, that is for sure.

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