OT: Been busy making stuff

Sarge, I can post the pic you emailed me when I get home this evening, or send it to the same address again and I'll pick it up here at work and post it. Nice work bud.

Steve
 
Update from my Archery Marshal, Lord Blackmoon up in Northkeep has just registered an Open Division score that bumps mine down to second place. Fight's on lads posted by Sarge


OK, fine. I still have some contacts in Chicago. Send me Lord what's-his-face's fullname, address, and where he works. Some ...er... associates... of mine, Vito and Diesel, work in "nuisance removal."

We can remedy de situation.
:cool:
 
Sarge's superb longbow. Carved with a knife he made himself, from a file. Talk about sole authorship. Sarge you COULD mine the iron ore, smelt it, forge it to shape then use it to carve the bow.;) What you make from nearly nothing just blows me away. Thanks for sharing this with us.

Steve
 
holy cow, Steve...you posted it the exact same time I did...

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Pretty neat looking long bow! Wish I could watch the "shoot off". Good job Sarge, I'm impressed!:)
 
Well I just ordered Volume Two of the Traditional Bowyer's Bible from the local Barnes & Noble in paperback for roughly $23.00. The book will be here in a week.:D
Sarge's bow looks remarkably like the old Cherokee and Creek Flat Bows of yesteryear.:D
There's an old and almost black Bois D'Arc Creek bow very similar in a case out at the Tulsa Zoo that I drool over every time I go through the particular building it is housed in.
Finding Bois D'Arc that long and straight is very hard to do these days.:(
 
Sarge, lovely work! I used to belong to an archery club with my father, though because I was small I used a 40lb semi re-curve. We made our own arrows from a kit a mate had (with a jig for fletching and so on) which was fun and I even got a gold medal in one tournament (it was hardly fair really, I was the only one in my catagory, so much for planning ahead...). It was field archery so it was as close as one can get to hunting without killing anything. There was one chap who was a longbowman, even had the overdeveloped bones on his arms and back, damn good archer as well. I am not sure whether he made his own bow (I think it was 120 LB) but he did make his own arrows, complete with goose feather flights that were tied on, VERY nice!

Sorry, got OT there, still a beautiful bow Sarge, I would give a lot to be able to loose a proper longbow.
 
When the Spaniards arrived on the coast of Florida in the 16th century, they encountered Timucuan indians wielding lonbows so powerful, that in one skirmish a Timucuan arrow penetrated a Spaniard's horse lengthwise from chest to rump. Yvsa's right as usual, indians of the eastern woodlands made quite extensive use of the longbow in hunting and warfare.

By the way Yvsa, I've got an Osage flatbow quite similar to what the Comanche used to run the Apache out of Texas. Apache weren't no punks, so them dadgum Comanche must have been some rough customers.

Sarge

Oh, almost forgot to add, Lowe's sells the red oak in four foot lengths absolutely perfect for making kid's bows/short draw indian flatbows. At 2 1/2 bucks a pop, they're a dirt cheap way to practice carving and tillering bows. One lady in our group refuses to shoot with anything else but the ndn flatbow I made her, even though her husband owns a whole menagerie of bows. People look at her bow and think it's a toy or something. When that happens I usually borrow her "toy" bow for a second, step over to the shooting line, and start plunking arrows into the 40 yrd target like nobody's business. I'll hand it back to her with a "thanks, just checking my arrows", and they now see her "toy" for the ancient weapon it truly is ;-)
 
wonderful bow, Sarge -
I still try (and it starts to work these days) to control my 70 lbs longbow (non traditional because glass laminated - got it very cheap because a company had to close and nobody wanted that tough beast...(Sky Archery Trophy Longbow) - and I still (but this will change) use plastic nocks too... I thought starting to shoot a longbow was a step, coming from olympic tournament (FITA) archery with high tech bows and carbon arrows... but now I feel - and I feel it very strongly when I read your post and see the pic of your bow - that I am about to become a purist....
:D

Andreas

btw. The Kumar Karda Bill sent me a while ago is a great knife that fits into my quiver like it belonged there - maybe I can post or link pictures in a week or so - Sarge gave me the advice it fits medieval surroundings - it does.
 
Sarge,
Very nice looking Longbow! Back when I was still Bowhunting I was using a "Martin" Longbow.(I haven't shot in quite a while. Torn rotator cup in my shoulder.) I went back to traditional equipment. Which resulted in much teasing from my co-workers at the time about shooting a stick with string on it.(I've got a great compound that I got while at Hoyt.) They usually quite talking when I started shooting better than they did.
Are they hard to learn to make? :) I really need to get my bow out and shoot it again. Thanks for sharing!
Mike
 
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