The traditional finnish flatbow is made either from ash or as birch pine laminate with siyahs made of hagberry and glued together with glue made by cooking descaled skins of perch with minimum amount of water until one will get a solution like thick slimy grey porridge.
Making a laminated flatbow.
You must take three strings and twist them together.
I m going to make a 64 bow so i ll make my mark at 66.
Then i ll cut my nocks one inch from both ends giving me 64 nock to nock.
This week we cover the fourth step in building a laminated bow.
When selecting a suitable piece of wood for the back laminate more knowledge is needed when using hickory compared to using bamboo.
A brief background woods and laminations backings belly s cores preparing the wood gluing the stave making a laminated longbow.
Hickory without a band saw or circular saw is hard and it would take a very long time.
Nylon string works ok.
Laminating the bow itself.
I therefore recommend that you make the back laminate from bamboo.
Braided sinew works good.
Anywho unclamp it and make sure it isn t stuck to the form.
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.
Making a thin back laminate for a longbow of e g.
Make the individual lines about 5 10 inches 12 7 25 4 cm longer than the bow is.