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Not your typical Horn bow - Pictures for July BOTM

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bowstick:
The limbs are entirely made from Horn and filled with epoxy.  The handle the only thing that is hickory, the handle is only 10" long... faded into the limbs of the bow.  The bow was fully functional before the limbs were filled with epoxy.  the last 12-14" on the tips of the bow are solid horn, as it was not hollow up there and there was nothing to fill. 

Justin Snyder:
Who the heck knows?  If we had a composite class, it would go there without a doubt.
If it was horn backed wood. I am still not sure.  We have clumped sinew backed bows with self bows because of they aren't backed with wood or boo.  Since the back of the bow is the same piece as the working core, I would lean toward self bow.  Call the filler, artistic.  I sure would have liked to see it without the filler.  Justin

Pat B:
I'd call it a horn self bow.  ;D   Pat

Marc St Louis:
If the bow was functional before filling the horn then I'm sure it would not have been for long. The stress level on the horn must have been extremely high. An open horn like that would want to flatten when being bent and that would cause it to split open. Air has very poor compression strength

bowstick:
Mark,

I'll be honest with you, the bow was functional with no filler for almost 7 months.  As I stated before, this bow was a work in progress and i worked on it in stages.  We shot the bow over 200 times with no filler in it and no Ill effects on the bow. 

I'd say the bow would have held together without the filler just the same.

Justin

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