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New Turkish 48 inch
bubby:
High level of coolness Mike, can't wait to see her all dressed up for the big dance
sleek:
I think i am in love.
mikekeswick:
Thanks guys. You are all too kind!
Leather is fully glued on now. I just dyed the kasan belly piece and the edge strips with ferric chloride and tannic acid. This is so that these pieces are black the whole way through and any scratches etc won't show up like they would if these pieces were just painted.
I tried my hand at gilding yesterday for the first time....quite tricky and a steady hand is a must!
loon:
I gotta try ferric chloride and tannic acid, I guess. What I have used is iron acetate and tannins from tea.
This is really cool, I wanna make a Turkish horn bow one day. They're screamers
BowEd:
Very nice Mike.Love watching your work here.Beautiful shape on your bow.I've got one here ready to tiller and one ready for sinew and would like to know or at least see the process of getting the shape you want from the backwards curl you start with.There are those clamp on form things[I forget the name of them] used in karpo's book that I can't seem to get familiar with.Using mild heat to get them into shape too I'm sure is used.Or maybe a form type jig board to get the shape too.I made my bows according to Jefferey Schmidts way of doing things.Grooving and wrap glueing etc.Got pics if I'm not understood completely.
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