How to make a bow of skis with your own hands?

A bow made of skis, made by hands, refers to devices of medium power. It will withstand moisture and frost. The shoulders of such a device are identical, and, therefore, it will shoot smoothly.

Give a new life to an old thing

Many are interested in how to make a bow of skis with your own hands. It turns out that this is possible.

In ancient times, it took several years to manufacture such weapons. This should not be surprising, since drying and processing of wood requires a lot of time.

Modern technologies and materials make it possible to reduce the time required. Even at home, you can make a device for a few days. This article will give detailed instructions on how to make bow from skis. It must be adhered to exactly. A drawing is also used in the manufacture of the product.

What materials and tools will be required?

How to make a bow of skis with your own hands? Despite the fact that making it seems very simple, the process requires attentiveness and a certain ability to work with tools.

To make onions from skis, you should prepare:

• Hacksaw;
• Rasp on wood;
• Drill (can be used both manual and electric);
• Clamps;
• a hammer;
• A chisel;
• Grinding machine;
• plane;
• Set of drills for wood ;
• Hacksaw;
• Sandpaper of different granularity;
• glue.

Materials will require:

• skiing;
• A bar made of wood (size 80x80x50 mm);
• Bolts;
• Wing washers.

To make a bowstring, a fishing cord, a nylon thread or a string (the tighter it is, the better) is used.

When making such an adaptation, like a bow of skis with his own hands, an important point is that he drank the handles. The manufacture of this part requires some effort. Therefore, it will be a good idea to prepare a table saw (sawing machine), a band saw and a drilling machine. So, make a bow of skis.

Handle the bow

Onions from skis with their own hands will shoot accurately only if in the execution of its handle all rules and exact dimensions are observed. This detail gives the product a holistic view, largely determining the style of its execution.

The design of such a product as a bow of skis, completely depends on the taste of the master and can be very different. At manufacturing it is possible to use ready drawings or to create own schematic variant, taking as a basis the offered sizes.

How long does the bow have? Ski sizes, however, like all other parts, are given in the detailed drawing.

When developing the design of the handle, the following points must be taken into account:

• Both ends must have flat shoulder straps;
• The place for the grip of the hand should be of a good size, suitable for the width of the palm.

Work begins with the manufacture of this particular part.

To make a bow of old skis with your own hands, you will definitely need a drawing. Only on it the model of the handle is cut out. Its basis is a foam pen 50 mm thick. The material is easily cut by means of a conventional clerical knife. After carrying out this process, it is possible to proceed with the basic manufacture of the handle from wood.

Here are two options for how to do this. You can create a one-piece construction on the basis of a wooden block, or you can make a team of plywood strips, which will be glued together. The main thing is to stick to the basic principle: the handle must retain its shape and not be bent when pulling on the string.

Plywood strips, which are cut out according to the template, should be glued with glue. They are stacked on each other and tightly fixed using clamps. In this condition, the workpiece is left for a day. One-piece handle is carved from a wooden block.

How to make a handle from different types of trees?

This version of the handle is more difficult, as it will take a lot of time, but the efforts are worth it. Made from wood of various breeds, the detail is distinguished by its style and sophistication. You can apply this option if there is no solid piece of wood.

It is desirable to use bars from such trees as:

• oak;
• Walnut;
• Pecan nuts.

To get a catchy composition, you should decide on the choice of design, pick the original shape of each part, match the colors.

An important note is that the saw is carried along the fibers. The bars are processed in such a way that they have a single width indicator. It should be 5 mm wider than the widest part of the ski. This stock is required for final processing by means of glass or sandpaper.

Next, you should file the resulting blanks so that their length is the same. Cutting should be carried out along the fibers.

Whatever tool you use at home, the edges of the boards will never turn out perfectly even. Here you should apply the plane. All unevenness is removed with his help. If there is neither a planer nor a thicknesser, sandpaper can be used , but this treatment will take a long time. Acceleration of the process can provide the Bulgarian with a special disk on which the abrasive paper is fixed.

After the wood is treated with a planer, the surface must be brought to absolute smoothness. In the stores of construction accessories, you can buy special dies, on which the abrasive is fixed. They are used by painters for sanding surfaces covered with putty. If there are no dies, then you can wrap the paper around a rectangular bar.

The process of proper gluing

After processing the workpiece should be glued together. For this purpose, any type of glue is used, in the instruction to which it is indicated that it can connect wooden surfaces. The glue must necessarily be resistant to moisture, otherwise you will have to resort to additional processing of the finished part with polyurethane or varnish used for yachts.

On the surface for bonding, a number of drops of glue should be applied, then distribute them evenly over the entire plane.

The boards are applied tightly so that there are no gaps between them. Then they are fastened by means of clamps. Dry the parts for 12 hours. Be sure to specify in the instructions the drying time of the glue you use.

The same principle is followed when gluing plywood boards. True, to achieve the desired height, the number of them will be larger. You should try to glue in such order that at one time, connect two surfaces, but no more.

Making such a device, like a bow from wooden skis, will take much longer if the handle is made from plywood sheets. Work with plywood sheets will take several days. Completion of this stage will be more rapid if several sets of clamps are used. If you glue the plywood boards one time and secure them with one set of clamps, then the parts will move apart and you'll have to start work again. At the same time, it will be necessary to remove the glue from the parts.

How to cut out the handle?

From the prepared bar of a solid or prefabricated structure (based on plywood boards), you should start sawing the handle. For this purpose, a foam model is used. It is compared with the finished drawing. If, after processing the foam, it is noted that the drawing has significant errors, then it is better to make corrections on paper.

After that, the drawing is transferred to the finished bar, clearly draws out the contours, and by means of a band saw or a jig saw cut the part. The choice of the shape of the handle of the bow from the skis depends on the imagination of the performer.

This stage is especially important, because half of your process has already been completed, and because of a mechanical error, you should not do everything again. Therefore, in this case, it is advised to use the tool that you know how to work well.

First of all, along the entire perimeter, cuts are made from the edge of the workpiece to the cutting line, which is applied with a pencil or marker. The width of the cut can be 2-3 cm. Thus it is possible to saw the curved lines and, naturally, stop the cutting. As soon as the distance is overcome, unnecessary wooden pieces will disappear.

If the manufacture of onions from skis is carried out carefully, the product will differ little from the factory counterparts in terms of power and functionality. And its appearance can be better.

How to finish the handle?

The workpiece is processed by means of a plane and sandpaper until a smooth and perfectly smooth surface is obtained. Handle the handle with two layers of drying oil. Then it is covered with waterproof varnish.

How to make a shelf for arrows?

After the main part of the handle has been cut out, it is necessary to mark the place for the boom shelf. It is thanks to the shelf that the bow will have an accurate sight.

To begin with, a contour is applied to the side of the handle, and then it is cut using a band saw. You can also use a jigsaw, but they should make the main cut, and then continue the process with a hammer with a chisel.

This is due to the technical characteristics of some jig saws. As a rule, the depth of their cut is 5 cm. In our case, the figure should be 8 cm.

To ensure that the handle remains stationary during cutting, the shelf should be secured to the workbench with clamps.

How to make shoulders?

Homemade bow from skis assumes the presence of shoulders. They are cut out. Here the important thing is to observe the proportions, since the level of the bow power depends on this.

Many people ask themselves the length of the handle and the length of the shoulders of the bow of the skis. With a handle length of 45 cm, the shoulders, taking into account the overlap, should be 55 cm each.

First, outline the cut line. It should be flat. It is necessary to postpone the right angle with a square of metal or protractor. Correct the angle of the cut piece by rasp.

The workpiece is sawn off with a metalwork, since all skis are reinforced with metal, and the tool can be damaged.

Then, with a drill, the diameter of which coincides with the size of the bolts, a hole is drilled to fix the shoulder and handle. Then the bolt will not stagger and will not allow the workpiece to crack due to the high resistance when screwing.

To begin with, it should be noted where the holes will be located. There will be two on each side. The most difficult point is that you need to drill the handle and shoulder simultaneously, attaching them to each other.

If one bolt is used on each side, then a 12M size should be chosen, if two on each shoulder, then the size M8 is used.

To drown the bolt head during drilling, a special nozzle with a stop is used. It is used in the manufacture of furniture. If such a device could not be found, then you should find a drill, whose diameter is slightly larger than the head of the bolt, and drill the finished hole to the depth of the head.

After the fastening of the details with the help of wing bolts their too long legs can be cut off with a Bulgarian with a special metal cutting disc or with a metalwork hacksaw.

To create grooves for the bowstring, homemade onions from old skis are sawed on the sides. These places are processed by means of a rasp, so that the bowstring is not erased at the points of contact with the shoulder.

On the shelf for the arrow is advised to paste a leather piece. You can apply and polymer fabric.

When pulling the bowstring, do not forget that in the pursuit of power, you can put a load on the shoulders of an unbearable. As a result, they will crack or break.

The basis of the bowstring should be several threads, not one string. For its production, strong fibers with artificial composition are used. For example, the expensive Kevlar, kapron, lavsan is used. You can use a silk thread. A beautiful bowstring will come from a fishing cord. The thickness of the filaments does not matter. The indicator will affect the number of turns.

Here, in fact, and all the explanations about how to make a bow from wooden skis. Next, we will consider the manufacture of strings and arrows.

Making bowstring

• The bowstring can be wound on the legs of the stool. Different types of winding will provide the desired length. The ends of the filament are connected by an Achilles knot.
• On the ears of the bowstring in the place where it is worn on the shoulders, it is necessary to make a protective winding. Usually a spacer is used. The winding should be tight, and the coils should fit tightly to each other. Its length is about 15 cm. In this case, the turns begin so that they hide the knot at the ends.
• Next, make a loop-eyelet. Its base is tightly wrapped.
• In the middle of the bowstring, a winding length of 15 cm is also made. Fingers will fall on this place.

Making arrows for the bow

Homemade bow of skis at home requires the production of arrows. The shaft for the arrow can be wooden. You can use ready-made slats made of wood with a square cross-section or ordinary staples, processed to a round cross-section with a diameter of 9 mm. The main thing is that the material should be direct.

Sandpaper should be sanded. For this purpose, a drill is used at low speed. The more smooth the shaft of the arrow, the more precise it will fly.

Make a tip

The tip can have a simple design: a hammered nail, wrapped in wire. But this tip is not so elaborate. It is much better to make a part made of steel, the thickness of which is 1.5-2 mm.

At the end of the bow a slit is made and a tip is put on the glue.

Doing a feather

Plumage at the end of the arrow is made from the feathers of birds. From one pen you will get two or three plumage. Its length should be from 5.0 to 9.0 cm.

The most suitable for the arrow are turkey feathers. They use their best part, located closer to the base.

The trunk of feathering is processed in such a way that it can be glued to the boom. The trunk is processed by sandpaper or emery paper. The latter method is preferable.

Conclusion

This article described how to make a bow from skis. The product is original and practical. The manufacturing process does not take much time. The main thing is to strictly follow the drawing and be extremely precise when preparing the details.

Onions from old skis, made in accordance with the proposed recommendations, will be distinguished by high power and originality.