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Here are a couple of details from pages in the Loeffelholz manuscript of 1505. http://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=258834&from=publication
They show a pretty cool way to make a selfspanning bow. Sorry about how I cropped one of the nocks. The images from the Biblioteka Jagiellonska are DjVu format and I had to use screen captures to get them into Jpeg. Unfortunately, the zoom was in set increments. Perhaps a Geekier fellow would have a better way....
In any case, here it is. As military tretises go, Loeffelholz is very reliable. So, who knows... this might even work.
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Here are a couple of details from pages in the Loeffelholz manuscript of 1505. http://jbc.bj.uj.edu.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=258834&from=publication
They show a pretty cool way to make a selfspanning bow. Sorry about how I cropped one of the nocks. The images from the Biblioteka Jagiellonska are DjVu format and I had to use screen captures to get them into Jpeg. Unfortunately, the zoom was in set increments. Perhaps a Geekier fellow would have a better way....
In any case, here it is. As military tretises go, Loeffelholz is very reliable. So, who knows... this might even work.
Mac