Finnish archery
Can someone point me to some resources to find information on Finnish archery and the bows used by the Finns. I found a language relation between Finnish and Magyar people, Magyar bows, but that's...
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Henrik, You mean horizontal branches, right? Spruce bough wood is a different beast from compression wood, although the former contains the latter in varying amounts. Spruce-branch (average 540 kg/m3)...
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Yes, horisontal branches, the large ones I cut last year contains almost 3cm of compression wood in the thin end. I also have a quite large piece of spruce compression wood from a leaning stem. Anyone...
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I have two rather big horizontal branches from yew tree. Not much heartwood in them though, but they are pretty bent upwards as they grew on the tree. Jaro
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Jaro, it will be interesting to see how they perform as bows. If there is compression wood in the sapwood, it might be very strong
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Huh that is good to know. These were cut in the autumn. Im still thinking about that russian bow, I might give it a shot. Jaro
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Sumpitan: Agree about the uncertain wood identification. It's not that hard to imagine why though, as the compression wood really doesn't look like regular wood. Items made from compression wood alone...
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Kviljo wrote: I understand I have to plan a trip to Finland some day Simo, do you think it would be possible for a norwegian to have a look at some of the bows from the storing place? Would it be a...
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Conifers compensate the pull of gravity by forming compression wood on the underside of a leaning trunk. But the normal-looking, lightweight, soft wood on the tension side of a compression trunk is...
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Nice, Simo! I'll be looking very much forward to the photos! - and make a sound in good time if I'm able to make the trip. Tuukka, how do you know it is stronger in tension?
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Pertinent studies of the mechanical properties of wood. Not pulling info out of my ..s
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I didn't think you were pulling it out of you ass, hehe. It was a question from a scientist to a scientist Done any bending-tests with numbers, or is it a hunch from making bows from such wood?
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As far as I know the weight spreader/spike on the bottom of the bow is called a basket. Basket is such a generic term that it may just be slang. My question is, does it come off to shoot? To me it...
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As for the Saami bows. The History of Laplad Wherein Are fhewed the Originals, Manners, Habits, Marriages, Conjurations, &c. of that People. Written By John Scheffer, Profellor of Law and Rhetoric...
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Great stuff Martti! Shefferus has quite a few interesting quotes about these bows. Quest: the "basket" stays on while shooting. It is also tillered so that the lower limb is a bit stiffer than the...
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Just took these photos at the Finnish National Museum at Helsinki. This so called Stone Age "bow part" was found from Raiku village at Kangasala in 1936. Dimensions are circa 72 x 3 cm and it's made...
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Mordvin bow from U. T. Sirelius' book "Suomen kansanomaista kulttuuria" (1919). Usually made out of Birch and Siberian Pine.
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An extremely interesting topic! Does anyone know about any Nganasan bows? They were pretty much isolated as arctic hunter gatherers until the beginning of the 20th century. Even used stone tools then!...
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Torjus, At least by the 1800´s, the Nganasan used southern Khanty and Selkup bows bought from Russian traders. Small wonder, considering the Taimyr peninsula conditions! Also, the Selkup bows were...
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sumpitan wrote:At least by the 1800´s, the Nganasan used southern Khanty and Selkup bows bought from Russian traders. Small wonder, considering the Taimyr peninsula conditions!According to A. T....
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