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ipe instead of horn belly?
sagitarius boemoru:
I have this idea for some time already - I thought about making magyar bow with Ipe instead of horn. It will work. Not the same thickness as Ipe is stiffer, but it will....
Jaro
Dane:
Jaro, I guess a few of us are thinking of Asiatic bows. Mine is going to be traditional, with water buffalo belly, wood core, and sinew back (all the materials are in place, just no time right now to get to it), but I am really interested in yours and other's interpretations of this kind of bow. And they are just so cool looking, never mind the many benefits derived from composites.
I guess bow design is like living languages, and keeps evolving and growing.
Dane
tom sawyer:
You'll need to make the working limbs somewhat longer I think. Horn is a lot better in compression than ipe. Probably at least twice as strong. I'd make the siyahs correspondingly shorter to make up for this longer limb. And I wouldn't push the reflex, that'll only crank on that belly even more.
Speaking of horn bows, I am finishing up an sorta Asiatic composite horn bow right now. The pics are in with another bow, but you can look through and find the front and side profile and the full draw profile. I think most of the details are with the pics.
http://groups.msn.com/LenniesBowPage/abcwannabes.msnw?Page=1
Dane:
Lennie, very nice. Have you posted the basic specs? (long day, so maybe I just missed them). Thanks. I especially liked the pics of you bracing the bow. There is a video somewhere on the large Asiatic site (spacing on the name) that shows a Hungarian traditional bow being braced...step though method. If I recall right, the Korean bow tapes (long show but interesting stuff in there if you can watch all 4 hours) show a guy bracing that style bow by basically sitting cross legged on the bow, and using heat to adjust the tiller.
Dane
tom sawyer:
ATARN. And I have the Korean bowmaking DVD, it was informative.
My bow is upwards of 70lb@27". Its not really a specific design, and I cheated and used resorcinol glue on the oryx honr belly strips. Plus I used 1/4 horn strips and cut them in half and turned them so its really two thin horn pieces on each limb.
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