Checking The Tiller
Posted: Sun Feb 23, 2014 12:52 pm
Until this morning I had not seen this method for checking the tiller on a wooden American flat bow.
The bow is 68” n to n. The diagram for checking the tiller is interesting.
The following is the introduction to the article published in Outdoor Sports. I believe that it would be a fair assumption that this is an American publication.
There is no date on the publication but the price of a lemonwood stave and the archers garb may suggest mid to late 1940s.
"Now you can shoot
THE NEW American FLAT BOW
When the white man provided the American Indian with a cheap trade musket in place of his native bow and arrow, he saved himself a good deal of grief, for had the red man developed his weapon along a logical path he might have arrived at an approximation of the bow we now know as the "semi-Indian," "flat," or "American" bow. With such a bow he could have shot with accuracy at a hundred yards (about the extreme accurate range of the long rifle), and could have delivered arrows faster than any frontier scout could load his rifle.
Any home workman, equipped with ordinary tools, can readily build the most modern and most efficient bow yet designed. The best material for the amateur is the imported wood known as "lemonwood." It can be worked almost entirely by measurement, without much regard to the grain. California yew and Osage orange probably make a better bow, but not for the inexperienced builder.
Lemonwood can be had from most dealers in archery supplies, either in the rough stave or cut to approximate outline. The price ranges from about $1.75 to $3. In ordering you should be careful to say you need a wide stave for a flat bow."
Daryl.
The bow is 68” n to n. The diagram for checking the tiller is interesting.
The following is the introduction to the article published in Outdoor Sports. I believe that it would be a fair assumption that this is an American publication.
There is no date on the publication but the price of a lemonwood stave and the archers garb may suggest mid to late 1940s.
"Now you can shoot
THE NEW American FLAT BOW
When the white man provided the American Indian with a cheap trade musket in place of his native bow and arrow, he saved himself a good deal of grief, for had the red man developed his weapon along a logical path he might have arrived at an approximation of the bow we now know as the "semi-Indian," "flat," or "American" bow. With such a bow he could have shot with accuracy at a hundred yards (about the extreme accurate range of the long rifle), and could have delivered arrows faster than any frontier scout could load his rifle.
Any home workman, equipped with ordinary tools, can readily build the most modern and most efficient bow yet designed. The best material for the amateur is the imported wood known as "lemonwood." It can be worked almost entirely by measurement, without much regard to the grain. California yew and Osage orange probably make a better bow, but not for the inexperienced builder.
Lemonwood can be had from most dealers in archery supplies, either in the rough stave or cut to approximate outline. The price ranges from about $1.75 to $3. In ordering you should be careful to say you need a wide stave for a flat bow."
Daryl.