Flightzzzzz!

Very impressive post about the flight- championships at the Bonneville Salt Flats by Kap Koppedrayer published in the Primitive Archer Magazine: go

A mustread.

The Vorderheubronn Flightarrow- Massacre

Last Saturday was the day, to chrono some flightbows and flightarrows I did all over 2013.

 The setup is like follows:

Chrono setup: the chronograph is placed on a rack, all the lights(LED) in my workshop are turned on, plus the indoor shooting lights of the chrony. There is a backstop in the background.

I found as much light as possible gives exact and serious results when doing chronos inside.

Indoor shooting lights for the chrony, installed just above the photo- sensors.

Inside the chrony with the 9V alkaline battery attached.

The display told me the chrony is ready.

Best speed of the 42lbs elm sinew backed bow, shot with a 260grs. arrow made of larch.

Sinew backed elm bow with inuit- style tips, bow is 44″ in length, 42lbs at 23″.

Sinew backed elm bow drawn at 9″

The short wild rose sinew- backed bow is 43″ in length, 40lbs at 23″.

It shots an 180grs. hollow cedar hex- shaft arrow at 204,6f/s.

The queen of this session:

Osage bow, inuit styled tips, 46lbs at 23″

Sideview of the queen

The queen- braced. The arrow is made of thin baked strips of fine grown larch, with the tip and the nock enforced with bird’ s eye maple.

That’ s it!
Best speed of this session.

Success so far. But I was longing for more: 300f/s!!!!

I ignored my falling concentration and accuracy and ended up with 4 broken flightarrows, the 279,0f/s arrow is lost somewhere in the disorder of my workshop. I even hitted the wire rod of the chrony and failed the backstop, my hands and fingers began to suffer. Remember zen: don’ t overdo it, underdo it.

These arrows are all composites. I guess I should choose the wood for the arrows much more serious and take much more care on the glueing.

The fletchings have survived for the next massacre.

Beastie bowzz

Again bowxplosion on tumblr is faster, go here to have a look at this recently almost finished beastie bow.

A picture heavy making of will be posted soon here.

First post since months – no excuse – just more bows and arrows!

New flightbows: retro- style, osage, red yew

Flightbow made of red yew, new flightarrows

steam- bent recurve

Red yew flightbow- handle, limbs fixed with wedges made of mountain- maple

Retro- styled flightbow made of red yew

Retro styled flightbow- braced, new flight arrows

Retro flightbow- drawn at 16″

Walnut handle

New flight arrows- fletching

New flight arrows- enforced nocks

New flightarrows- hardwood enforced tips

Retro osage flightbow- cherry handle sideview

Retro osage flightbow- mounted handle of wild cherry

Retro flightbow, osage

Retro osage flightbow, drawn at 16″

Retro osage flightbow- recurve and stringbridge

 

Hope you enjoy the bows and arrows posted above, details will be posted soon.

I did a lot of bow- classes the last months, our new family members, the mountain- sheeps needed a lot of time: they turned out to be world class escapees, so we’ ve to try out different types of fences. Finally I ended up in making lots of the good old sheep hurdles, I don’ t like to see sheep dying in an electric fence.

This winter is really hard, not to cold but snow since five months, I almost forgot how the world is looking without snow. Where is the spring of 2013? Outside it’s still very cold and there’ s still this snow!

The lost and promised pics……………..bow sale………near future…………

Scythian hornbow, Persian shield, 3 arrows

The yew flightbow- 3 new flight arrows- still want to make 300f/s and 400yards!!!

The yew wood for this bow has been dried for 15 years and the hit is, that the bow didn´t got any set till now- it´s a 44″ long shortie drawing 51lbs at 23″. Can´t wait first chronos and flights………………..

The ash longbow for sale- 66″ in length, drawing 46lbs at 28″

the ash longbow- after about 18 years of heavy use no sign of set- a true companion.

First trial in cultivating flax- flax loves the salty air of the sea- the sea is far away from here- maybe the fibres will be not as strong as needed for bow strings…….

Our sheep(alpine stonesheep)-Carlos the brown ram, Frida on the left, Betty in the middle, they will provide us with wool, milk( precious cheese) and a lots of more sheep…………….

The plains double-bow for sale, braced- sinewed back

The plains double- bow- unstrung