The 7000 year old Hjarnø bow found in Denmark a few years ago. One tip was missing.
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/mesolithic-bow-from-hjarn-70f092b78ef3410ea5556b2878f980b1
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Damn, thats older than the Earth :smileystooges:
Is it possible to tell the type of wood it was made from? :saywhat:
Elm.
Quote from: Buemaker on September 24, 2021, 07:06:10 AM
The 7000 year old Hjarnø bow found in Denmark a few years ago. One tip was missing.
https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/mesolithic-bow-from-hjarn-70f092b78ef3410ea5556b2878f980b1
I would call that a mollegabet bow, but it would seem the Danes had the idea as well.
Quote from: Flem on September 24, 2021, 08:49:35 AM
Damn, thats older than the Earth :smileystooges:
Zing! :o
Mark
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The so called Møllegabet is Danish.
That's pretty cool Bue.
I can't help but wonder what he mighta been hunting way back then.
That's a fabulous find and a great 3D recreation. Fascinating to me that the Northern Cultures developed that "lever-tipped" concept rather than the recurve. Both designs give added energy to the arrow, of course.
Very cool bue, Bue. :thumbsup:
Are there dimensions for it, length, width, lever length, width and thickness?
I have a piece of elm I've been working on that might end up as the Elg Bue using the moose(elg)sinew you sent me. This would be a good design to use as a template.
Pretty cool...
PatB -- the only dimensions I could find for the Hjarnø bow are overall length 1.6m, width 5cm, lever 1/3 the length of the working limb... very close to the dimensions of the Møllegabet find, I believe. I don't have access to anything other than academia.edu for research papers and it is only mentioned there in passing, not in detail.
Thanks Ken. That gives me something to work with. :thumbsup:
So that about 63"x almost 2". I think my stave is just under that. This might just work out ok. :thumbsup:
Give it a try Pat. I've made Møllegabets from boards but not staves, as small as 48" n-t-n. It's the proportions of lever to working limb and handle length (figure 5" fade to fade) that really matter, IMHO.
This is the one Buemaker poste from Denmark.
I took all the metric measurements and changed to English
The top ones, 71" NTN
the bottom one is a modified one. 64" NTN
(https://i.imgur.com/4dQZ7JC.jpg)
I think my stave is about 60" +/- but it has a twist. I'll get it down to floor tiller stage, heat the twist out then set it up to the style. This is gonna be a slow process because I want to wait til winter before adding the sinew...plus I have to get my brain back into bow building mode. :bigsmyl:
Thanks for the help, guys.
I posted this here a while ago
https://www.tradgang.com/tgsmf/index.php?topic=176247.msg2967397#msg2967397
That's the one I drew up Bue.
Thanks for posting it :thumbsup: