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New Turkish 48 inch
BrokenArrow:
Mike. How wide and thick are the sals at their widest and thickest point? I am making 2 Turkish bows right now 50 and 52 inches and they weigh about 500 grams and are 34 mm wide and 13mm thick. I fear they are both about 100 #. Please post your dimensions. Thanks and great job.
mikekeswick:
BrokenArrow - I'd be interested to see them! Mine is shorter at 48 inch ntn and has now settled at 63#@28 (I've only just got round to weighing it) the sals at mid point between fades and kasan eye are 31mm x 10mm.
Even though your bows are longer I suspect that 13mm thick sals are going to give you quite some weight! Where are you measuring 13mm? What are the measurements mid sal?
How thick is your horn?
Urufu_Shinjiro:
100#, so period weights then, lol.
Carson (CMB):
Mike, how do you do your joint between horn and belly? Deep matched toothing grooves, flat, or flat and roughened up? Do you use fish glue?
BrokenArrow:
Mike,
I will post a pics tonight.
It is 48 inches NTN and weighs 500 grams.(No leather yet)
I measured at the widest point in the sal.
Wood and horn combined before sinew from about 15 to 40 cms has thickness of between 9 and 10mm.
If the weight is not dropping would you say it is fully dried?
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