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New Turkish 48 inch
mikekeswick:
--- Quote from: Carson (CMB) on May 08, 2016, 12:47:24 pm ---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?
Sorry only just seen your question.....On this one I used 2mm deep matching grooves and a mix of sinew and hide glue. The fish bladder glue from yellow croakers is very good (slower gelling) and is what I've been using on my last couple of hornbows since the one in this post.
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sleek:
Mike, how were your chrono results, and can you please give us force draw numbers? I am trying my hardest to recreate horn bow performance with a pure osage self bow and would like a base line for comparison please. This bow is perfect as it is in the same size ntn and poundage I am trying to emulate.
mikekeswick:
I can't remember off the top of my head....I'm sure I wrote it all down somewhere, I will have to have a look and see if I can find them. I haven't measured the force/draw curve but I will. If you can make an osage bow with such string tension at brace....i'll be surprised!! ;)
I've got another Turkish bow almost ready to be tillered now. It has more reflex i the bending limbs than I've seen before on a working bow....IF I can get it strung and to full draw I think it will be quite special. I also have a Magyar (kind of) bow just about ready - it's force draw curve might be a better challenge for a wooden bow.
loon:
My ~58# Magyar bow (from my recent thread) has so much string tension, I can't imagine a heavier Turkish bow O_o It's already way more than in any of my glass pony bows..
Good luck
mikekeswick:
I can't find all my fps stats on this bow.....
But I just shot a couple of arrows with it for you. I'll do some more if you want? Anyway 320 grain arrow - 235 fps. This bow makes me smile whenever I shoot it :)
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