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Making a laminated english longbow.
Fiberglass back and belly with maple laminates and purple heart core and handle.
Making the ipê belly laminate.
Best way to make your first longbow.
A detailed flat bow build along.
Beginner s guide to building a hickory longbow.
A brief background woods and laminations backings belly s cores preparing the wood gluing the stave making a laminated longbow.
Plans for this bow build are available free.
The english longbow has two main types of construction as far as types of material go you either make a self bow a bow made from one piece of wood or a laminated bow one made of many pieces of wood glued together.
You can make a d section english longbow with laburnum and it will perform and last reasonably well in draw weights up to maybe 55 60lbs.
Start by marking out the belly laminate for the longbow.
The hunting longbow was the most advanced and innovative invention of its day.
The video below shows the basics of gluing laminations together and putting the stave to cure on a former.
It pays to make the bow slightly over long for the draw length rather than too short and it will perform well with lighter more delicate yet stiff limb tips.
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Making the laminate longbow.
There is something enchanting about the idea of crafting something from scratch with one s own hands looking at a piece of dead wood and seeing something more and then breathing life into it again in the shape of a bow.
Whoever created the bow and arrow surely had no idea how they were carving out the future of humanity.
The ipê plank i acquired was 14 cm 5 1 2 wide which made it possible for me to make 4 belly laminates of 193 cm 76 long by 3 5 cm 1 3 8 wide by 2 2 cm 7 8 thick.
Using laminated materials to make bows is a technique that dates back far into antiquity but using all wood laminates to make bows in the style of an english longbow is a process developed by the bowyers of england during the 18th century and.
Now for the surprise.
Equally silent stealthy simple and utterly lethal.