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GraemeK:
Hi Marlin -- are you planning to sinew the back? If so I guess it will be a while till we see it drawn.

Half Primitive -- There is a very real limit to how wide you make the Bamboo as it becomes impossible to get it to go around the curve without the edges puckering up even if you steam it or try to form it green and then dry it.

Matt -- Tempering the Bamboo belly helps and the bow shown has had this done but my guess is that the load may be something like 2 or 3 times what the bamboo will take without compressing and taking set.

Graeme

kerbinator:
I supose I can spare the siyas and the riser. But I regret to say this bow is history. I learned a great deal though. This bow was backed with rawhide the ash lam just under the hide and on the belly failed at the fade the hickory core survived. I was triying to make a version of what a Hun warrior carried. Next time i'll use horn and sinue. 

GraemeK:
Real sorry to hear that it did not work. Keep trying and you are bound to succeed --- at least you have access to the horn and sinew .
Look forward to your next attempt.

Graeme

Pat B:
You got good experiences from this first bow. Sorry it went but if you learned something its not a failure...its an experiment! ;)    Pat

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