Hjarnø bow

[Buemaker]

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

[Mad Max]

 

[Flem]

Damn, thats older than the Earth

Is it possible to tell the type of wood it was made from?

[Buemaker]

Elm.

[mmattockx]

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.

Damn, thats older than the Earth

Zing!


Mark

[Shredd]

 

[Buemaker]

The so called Møllegabet is Danish.

[Bvas]

That's pretty cool Bue.

I can't help but wonder what he mighta been hunting way back then.

[KenH]

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.

[Pat B]

Very cool bue, Bue. 
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.

[Roy from Pa]

Pretty cool...

[KenH]

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.

[Pat B]

Thanks Ken. That gives me something to work with. 
So that about 63"x almost 2". I think my stave is just under that. This might just work out ok. 

[KenH]

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.

[Mad Max]

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

[Pat B]

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. 
Thanks for the help, guys.

[Buemaker]

I posted this here a while ago
https://www.tradgang.com/tgsmf/index.php?topic=176247.msg2967397#msg2967397

[Mad Max]

That's the one I drew up Bue.
Thanks for posting it