| From: Tim Baker
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| Date: 05-Dec-21 |
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Combed linen will let you do the impossible: put wood back on after you've taken it off. A 30lb bow can become a 60 pounder. Not much thickness needed. About 1/8" of flax on a typical bow will do. Combed flax is much stronger than most woods so can overpower the belly. Better to lay down two or more narrow separated strip, tapered in width and thickness to match the limb.
If using hide or t'bond wet small diameter bundles then work the glue into the fibers. Often a bundle will look saturated but spread it open and it's dry inside. Adding a few drops of detergent aids penetration.
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| From: Runner
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| Date: 05-Dec-21 |
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Isn't a belly or back lam a way of adding wood back?
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| From: JusPassin
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| Date: 05-Dec-21 |
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If you have a flat enough surface.
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| From: Tim Baker
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| Date: 05-Dec-21 |
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You're right. I should have noted that flax is a paleo way to do it.
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| From: Runner
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| Date: 05-Dec-21 |
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Were any Paleo bows backed with linen?
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| From: Tim Baker
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| Date: 05-Dec-21 |
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Runner,
If paleo is used to identify a period we'll likely never know, given the decay rate of flax no pre-metal age versions would survive. If paleo describes a process then yes, several flax backed, repaired, and aided bows have been made.
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| From: Onehair
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| Date: 05-Dec-21 |
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Where do you get such material.
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| From: Primitive sniper
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| Date: 05-Dec-21 |
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I used it on several bows , works great, lm looking forward to building a few more with it this winter
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| From: Tim Baker
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| Date: 06-Dec-21 |
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Here's the cheapest source a quick search could find, $2.25 per ounce.
http://woolgatherers.com/FlaxStrickPage.html? fbclid=IwAR3rMRnxCGMZU7KIpKQxEW3bP3LvYlTnqZ7JWnJDKluWcjVGFsWuRtt pMtk
Be sure to buy flax strick, unbleached, 25" to 30" fibers.
It can also be used for spinning up your own bow strings, about one-dollar per string.
If you have access to TBB-2 the strings chapter will show how.
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