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medicinewheel:

dane!  -  yes i'm about to do a hornbow, soon as i get started, with siyahs but not a specific design. but i'm also looking forwar working with ipe; i purchased some a while ago.
in TBB3 is a bow pictured made by  a guy named dave kissinger. it's a short sinewd bow with light recurves and a hornbelly. that's another hybrid i find very interesting; i fact that's my favourit bow pictured in all 3 TBB's  :o

frank

Dane:
Frank,

I just glanced at that bow. Very cool design, not what I want to do, but nice.

This suddenly reminds me of the burial mounds near where I was stationed, south of Augsburg. It was a huge defeat by the Magyars by German forces led by a Bishop Otto. The West Woods had hundreds of burial mounds, some many feet tall. I wonder how many ancient composite bows were directly under my feet when I went and visited the site? I never brought a shovel, as tempting as that was!

Lennie, my thoughts are to make the core and other layers around 3/16", but maybe a bit thicker would do. And I do want to avoid messing with the horn too much if possible, but light work would not hurt, as you pointed out.

medicinewheel:

--- Quote from: Dane on May 11, 2007, 06:15:20 am ---
This suddenly reminds me of the burial mounds near where I was stationed, south of Augsburg. It was a huge defeat by the Magyars by German forces led by a Bishop Otto. The West Woods had hundreds of burial mounds, some many feet tall. I wonder how many ancient composite bows were directly under my feet when I went and visited the site? I never brought a shovel, as tempting as that was!


--- End quote ---

yes, that does sound tempting! but glad you didn't  :)

hey evryone! - this more and more becomes hornbow-ish and in general, the hornbow keeps poppin' up here; shouldn't we start a hornbow thread or even a hornbow board?? something like ATARN for the poor people  8) ??
moderaters what you think??

did i mention i like this side for the plenty exchange??

frank

Dane:
Frank, a horn bow board is an excellent idea! I second the motion.

I never went on an amateur archeological expedition because one, it is unethical, and two, the image of the Polizai showing up in those green and white cars was unnerving. However, if you want, I can give you detailed directions to the site, not far from Klosterlechfeld. :)

tom sawyer:
I wish we wouldn't break up into small groups.  The Bows section isn't so active that things slide off the page all that fast.  And we havne't posted too many hornbows so I think simply carrying on a running thread or two is all we need to do.

I will say that ATARN is a pretty slow board, and not that many people are helpful to newbies especially if you aren't following an artifact in design and construction.  I've gotten a lot of info from that forum but it was mostly through reading old threads.  So I am glad to see some people here who are interested in making hornbows.  Now, get out there and actually make a hornbow so we can all learn more about it!

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