Angular bow

Host Mike Loades discusses the power and complex engineering behing the famous Egyptian angular composite bow.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Ancient
• weapons

[Lukos0036]

Mikes bow looks like it lost some tiller on one limb.

[minxel16]

No hornbow made to date can shoot 300fps! That even competes with modern compound bows. He must not know what 200fps is

[minxel16]

@MrLantean not tension but a mix of tension and compression since it was placed between the sinew and horn so a much greater range of woods could be used. if you're interested juniper was also great in compression so bamboo composites mainly used that as the belly

[minxel16]

lol the historian quoted compound bows at 1.16-totally out of time mate!

[Divertedflight]

At 2:27 the sinews are seen wrapped around the bow and while this isn't false as it was often done with some composite bows. It is a little misleading, as most of the sinew fibre was laid lengthways on the wood on the opposite side to that which has the horn glued to it.

[Divertedflight]

Alan Lloyd make a bit of a flub at 1:07 and 1:12 he calls the composite bow a compound bow.

Easily done, and sounds similar, but they're quite different bows.

[MrLantean]

@Richenov Many types of wood are suitable for making composite bow. In Mongolia, birch is prefered because of its tension resistance wood. In China, bamboo and mulberry wood is used. From a tv documentary, the wood for Indian Moghul composite bow is from mango trees. The Turks uses oak or maple in their bow construction.

[MrLantean]

@5tonyvvvv I am refering to the modern compound bow. If this type of bow is used during warfare, the archer will be at a disadvantage as he is unable to shoot as many arrows as the archers with composite or longbows. High rate of firing is more important than accuracy for a company of archers to release hails of arrows.

[5tonyvvvv]

@MrLantean i never said it was used for war..u are mixing things up i said the composite bow from ancient times..

[MrLantean]

@5tonyvvvv The compound bow is primarily used for sporting events. This type of bow is used during modern archery competitions. Although the compund bow is very accurate, it has a much slower rate of firing compared to traditional bows. It is also much noisier as well. The compound bow is not suitable for war.