steel strings

bogaman

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Been looking for a steel bow string for an early Apollo steel bow for years. Just acquired one. Now looking for a metal wristguard bracer) made by Accles and Pollock to complete an early equipment set. (Already have steel arows) Anyone out there got one they want to sell ?.
 
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Steel bow string? Eugh...
In my novice days making Crossbows I messed with them...horrid things.
I saw a bow made of pre-stressed concrete once (yes really, it was made to demonstrate the remarkable properties of the material) which had a bowden cable string.
I don't really know why a steel bow needs a steel string. My 275 lb draw weight crossbow does fine with Dacron (ok the string is about 1/4" thick :) ). And all the medieval crossbows managed without, some of them drawing 1,200 lb (cf Ralph Payne Gallwey)
Steel cable can chaffe and fray and it's a pig to make loops.
I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, appart from that it's fine.
Or was a steel string an authenic part of the kit? (even if so I'd be tempted to use poetic license)
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Paradox

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I'm guessing that bogaman is looking to complete a historical set, rather than looking for something to make the steel bow safer to shoot?

Is the Accles and Pollock the same one as Caparo Accles & Pollock — Specialists in the manufacture of manipulated & coiled rigid tube assemblies who are based in Oldbury, Brum? In which case it may be worth contacting them directly - companies are often interested in things they used to produce, and may be able to produce a repro of the original if they still have the designs in their archives.
 

not dead yet

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Ironman
hi bogaman.

hope to see you soon at the tox now i've been repaired. i'll bring them arrows that your interested in circa 1875. and the perle arrow. got a set of steel arrows here to.
also have 3 steel bows 2 falcons and a blue one(swallow is it)
sorry no steel armguard but i'll ask my dad he might have one buried somewhere.

pete
 

bogaman

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Right first time. I'm looking to complete an historical set. I have some of Jack Flinton's steel arrows incidentally and they're barrelled, which is unusual I think for Apollo gear. Also a Kestrel with a high wrist cork handle, again unusual. Accles and Pollock have been contacted before apparently - although not by me - and their response was that they have absolutely nothing remaining of their Sporting Section. I have read somewhere though that there is a locked Container in their Yard which contains the residue of their sporting gear. Bit of a myth probably. Does anyone live near enough to Brum to go and beard them in their den ?.

I will be up at Tox for the SAA Meeting in August, ans again for Bowyers L/B Day so will perhaps see you there then ?. Can't shoot now I'm afraid, arthritis rules, O.K. !!
 
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