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Fascination Selfbow - Part 2: For Insiders - Book - Wolfgang Gailer
Building on the basic knowledge and practical tips from volume 1, the reader is guided further into the fascinating world of the selfbow. Step-by-step, illustrated instructions explain how to make a high-performance recurve bow from osage wood. Rarely found instructions for corrections and repairs offer valuable help in the event of unforeseen developments.
Five of the author's selfbow friends present one of their experiments and thus make the fascination that the selfbow exerts on them tangible.
The reader joins the author on the trail of the perfect bow. In the detailed analysis and comparison of different bow designs, the reader is made to understand how bows work and what is important without digressing into physics. There is also an autobiographical continuation of the somewhat different story of the ash tree bow.
CONTENTS
My Osage recurve bow
From exposing the top growth ring to the ground tiller
Tilling the straightness of the bow
Recurves and tuning
Finishing touches
Corrections
Causes
Corrections required during production
Corrections required after the extended insertion
with practical examples
Repairs
Causes of
Damage to the tip
Cracking
Displacement of the tip
Weak point
Bow breakage
Practical examples with analysis and solution
Challenges and experiments
Primitive bow from dogwood bush - Rudolf Faustmann
Osage longbow with natural bend - Hannes Wolf
Robinia selfbow with natural reflex - Torsten Nowak
Elm recurve with sinew covering - Markus Aschwanden
An incredibly gnarled Osage bow - Gerhard Sander
A knotty Osagestave - Wolfgang Gailer
On the trail of the perfect bow
What is a perfect bow?
Comprehensive explanation of the characteristics and relationships
Standard designs
5 historical bow designs with sketches
My perfect bow
Ash self-bow, Osagerecurve and horn composite bow in comparison
Appendix
Explanation of terms and references
Happiness is a bird - Continuation of the history of the ash tree
Paperback, 250 pages, ISBN 978-3950420418
