| From: SteelyDan
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 04-Mar-23 |
|
I had a black locust stave left after building the Three Sisters and thought about having a first try at constructing a Mollegabet type self bow.
This design goes back to 5400BC and has short flat working limbs with narrower levers at the tips.
I hacked out the rough contours and then started to floor tiller. I could see early on that the short limbs were going to take some set and so I hit them with a heat gun to temper the area.
I then backed the working areas with jute material and Titebond III glue.
|
|
| From: SteelyDan
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 04-Mar-23 |
|
Mollegabet limbs.
|
|
| From: SteelyDan
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 04-Mar-23 |
|
I have only tillered the bow out to 24 inches so far. It is pulling 45# @ 24". I need to get another couple of inches out of it for my 26 inch draw.
|
|
| From: SteelyDan
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 04-Mar-23 |
|
It will get some fancy tips, a leather handle and stained dark brown.
|
|
| From: SteelyDan
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 04-Mar-23 |
|
The frayed jute string when glued down kind of looks like sinew.
It required two steamings and a couple of limb tip corrections.
|
|
| From: Dry Bones
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 04-Mar-23 |
|
From an uneducated perspective. The levers do not flex at all and are just a static end section? If that is true, then all the flexing is done fadeout to fade out, and that is a very short working limb? Keep the thread alive and showing your progress, definitely an interesting style of bow.
-Bones
|
|
| From: SteelyDan
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 04-Mar-23 |
|
Pearl Drums, Runner and Jeff Durnell, along with others, could give you a better idea of how this design works.
SD
|
|
| From: fdp
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 04-Mar-23 |
|
I've made a couple of bows with that profile over the years. I like them personally. Dan Perry has set a number of world flight records with bows of that design.
Effectively the inner 1/3 or there about is the working section.
|
|
| From: 2 bears
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 04-Mar-23 |
|
Very nice work. Please keep us posted. >>>----> Ken
|
|
| From: Corax_latrans
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 04-Mar-23 |
|
I am really interested in this design… speaks to the Nordic roots, no??
I think it was Arvid who built one and wrote it up some time ago. The performance numbers were impressive.
|
|
| From: SteelyDan
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 04-Mar-23 |
|
Mollegabet and Holmgaard bows from ancient times were recovered, partialy preserved, from peat bogs in Denmark.
Pre-Viking roots for sure!
SD
|
|
| From: Primitive sniper
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 04-Mar-23 |
|
Great shooting bows when properly made , nice work
|
|
| From: ken techau
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 04-Mar-23 |
|
Very interesting!
|
|
| From: Buzz
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 05-Mar-23 |
|
Great job.
I've got a plan, somewhere, for that bow.
|
|
| From: BowAholic
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 05-Mar-23 |
|
very cool...I have never tried a black locust bow with the sapwood intact. I have seen some world class Mollegabet type selfbows and they all work the outer fades/levers down by removing as much wood as possible, but stopping before it starts to bend. They are definitely fast bows when made properly.
|
|
| From: Bob Rowlands
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 05-Mar-23 |
|
Colin, thanks for the historic perspective and photos.
|
|
| From: Pdiddly2
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 05-Mar-23 |
|
Nice work Colin! Thanks for sharing!
|
|
| From: SteelyDan
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 06-Mar-23 |
|
Got some tips put on, a leather handle grip and stained a light walnut.
|
|
| From: SteelyDan
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 06-Mar-23 |
|
Sorry for poor sideway pics.
|
|
| From: SteelyDan
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 06-Mar-23 |
|
Last one...sorry to torture you guys. Rough draw pic from funny angle but you get the idea.
It shoots well, 48#@26", 6 3/8" brace, 64" ntn.
Stay well!
SD
|
|
| From: SteelyDan
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 06-Mar-23 |
|
Oops..that pic above me is another board bow. Wrong pic.
|
|
| From: SteelyDan
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 06-Mar-23 |
|
Last one, I promise.
SD
|
|
| From: Stan
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 06-Mar-23 |
|
Great job sir..
|
|
|
|
|
|
| From: shandorweiss
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 07-Mar-23 |
|
Thanks for sharing that. I never heard of those bows. Interesting for sure. People sure have been creative with bows... and not just recently.
|
|
| From: Bjrogg
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 08-Mar-23 |
|
That’s a nice full draw Steely Dan. I think you did a nice job on that one. It looks like everything that should be bending is. And nothing that’s bending is bending too much.
Bjrogg
|
|
|
|
| From: fdp
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 08-Mar-23 |
|
Really, really nice.
|
|
| From: Corax_latrans
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 08-Mar-23 |
|
Indeed. Somebody really needs to make one of those in a carbon/foam layup.
|
|
| From: ken techau
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Date: 22-Mar-23 |
|
That's a really nice bow!!
|
|
If you have already registered, please sign in now
For new registrations Click Here
|
|
|
|
