Bone Axe/Bone Bow

[theTrav]

Bone Meal for cooking with

[Jfloyd]

Psht, Blaze, you can't 'blaze' with hemp. Far too weak.

[Quota]

For a bow to work, the solid material must bend. Period.

A real bow is never powered by elastic string.

And insofar as I know... bone is not elastic material.

Bone axes would be nice, however :]


( googling 'bone bow' gives me only results from WoW >_> and a few others that are not related to a bow powered by bone, but rather adorned. )

[theTrav]

insofar as I know... bone is not elastic material.

I think there's a small amount of give in it, but certainly not enough to call it elastic or to work as a bow.

[Blaze]

( googling 'bone bow' gives me only results from WoW >_> and a few others that are not related to a bow powered by bone, but rather adorned. )

It is clear that the bow used by the Italian Saracens were composite, as with their Ultramarine brothers. The textual references are faulty but there is sufficient evidence in the Anjous Curia documents of the Thirteenth Century to confirm this. Document charts include arcu de corno (horn bows), which were certainly composite bows. There are some references to arcu de osso (bone bows), which likely means the same type of bow.

Your training is incomplete young padawan.

[theTrav]

And now after a little wikipedia reading, I know about composite bows.

Thanks Blaze!