How to make a small bow

For the handle make a nice piece of wood with dimensions 400-50-30 mm. It must be without knots, with layers along the long side. Suitable beech, birch and other solid woods. Or find it in the hardware store the right size ax.

Shoulders the bow easier to make lamellas. This material is a flexible veneer, layers of several varieties of wood go along. Look for it in companies that make furniture, or in the warehouses of the hardware. For the string suitable nylon yarn, which are sold in the departments for anglers, with a thickness of 0.5 mm.

A stick for the handle put a pencil in the form of this part. Saw pattern saw, a jigsaw or a chisel. Sanded the handle you can then when you fit it to the onions. Make a shelf on the side, which is your dominant hand (Lefty – left righty – right). Arrows mark the top and bottom of the handle.

Calculate the length of the shoulders, it depends on the overall bow length minus 200 mm at the hilt, the rest of the inches divide in half. Don't do bow length less than 120 cm, as the bending angle of the shoulders will be too big and such a product will quickly fail. If you are limited to the length of the slats, do it to the maximum.

The billet slats markup in the following way: each edge mark at 15 mm obliquely, mark the location of the cut. We split the workpiece into two parts. With a pencil draw a smooth transition of width from 15 mm to 30-35 mm. Fold the blanks one upon the other, clamp in a vise and bring the plane to a high degree of "sameness".

The groove under the string to make the distance of 1-3 cm from the narrow end of the arm. Drill the holes for the bolts to handle 50 mm and 25 mm. In the arm to drill the bolt holes 50 mm., the Shoulders attach to the handle on long bolts, take the rope, make her a bow, but do not pull. Your goal is to center the shoulders. Align them so that the rope passed right in the middle of the handle. Mark the short bolts on the handle. Remove the shoulders, drill the holes for 25 mm fasteners. Assemble all the pieces.

Take the cloth and handle all the details, to avoid burrs and irregularities. If you have a cautery device, you can make an ornament, or using Celtic designs. But in decorating valid complete creative freedom. Impregnate the wood by means that protect against rot. The varnish is not very suitable, since the bow is not static and the varnish will crack from the constant bending.

Between the string and the grip distance should be about 20 cm nylon Pull rope with a thickness of 3-4 mm, do the loop on each side and slip into groove. First slide the loop of string over one shoulder bow, but not the propyl, and more. Then hook the string to the second shoulder, already in the designated groove. Abut this shoulder to the floor and insert the first loop in propyl.