Making a bow
Shortly - it is as follows: o The best way - by a half-sportive bow. It is sold everywhere, and has a very good fighting capabilities, furthermore - it is compact (can be disassembled). The main problem - it is 120 - 150 shekels, which is too much, but if you are going to stay in LARP for a long time - this is for you. Higly recommended! o Second - and worth of all - by an decorative bow. It´s fighting capabilities are really low (it has spread angle of 25 degrees
but it comes with a pack of arrows and worth only 50 shekels. This is a choise if you urgently need bow for you costume, and not to fight with it. NOT RECOMMENDED! o Third - by a bow from someone who makes them (like Rabby or Delt). But I´m allmost sure that in the last time noone makes bows. But still try! o And, if nothing satisfies you - try to make it yourself. You should experiment with every plastic material that you can reach, as far as I know - noone has ever found something acceptable.(except) The only artifical material that is acceptable is a "glass-plastic" , a white sticks used to hold flags on the fields. They are good, but extremely hard to reach - they are not sold anywhere. If you are going to try wood - first of all try bamboo! In "SHALOSH HAMISHALOT", and , probably, in lots of other places, they sell all kinds of bamboo for a little money (like 2.50 for a thin stick up to 14 for a 2 meter thick stick) I´m sure that you will not succeed in the first attempt, but not give up! I saw at least one very good self - made bamboo bow. o And, if time is pushing and you still haven´t found anything right - come to the first tree with a relatively stright branch (not a pine though!) get a saw - and you have it! But not wait for such a bow to be good and last long. But you can a least make it beautiful by adding a leather and burnt-in runes or smth. o foof! that was "shortly"