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a different type of horn-bow
mikekeswick:
--- Quote from: stuckinthemud on June 02, 2017, 05:36:43 pm ---All the medieval ones I know of are strips of horn with non-matching grooves glued into a solid laminate with a huge sinew layer and some also have a sinew wrap across the sides, some even sinewed over the belly, very few, if any, have a wood core.
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Crack on then!
stuckinthemud:
Thanks for the encouragement Mike, I really should just bite that bullet but, 😀😀 i am too old to know everything 😀 thanks for the images David, I did enjoy them, really useful, never seen anything like them; where are they taken from?
The bow I want to copy is the Ulrich bow here http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/21940 but the prod is probably not the original one, so, I have the freedom to make one to my specs, only I don't know what poundage a given size of composite prod will produce or even what the original may have put out. I don't even know what UK laws have to say on this issue.
loefflerchuck:
Love this! thanks David. I've been thinking about using strips of leftover horn for something like this. Horn and sinew without wood makes sense when you think of going to the field with the crossbow strung and leaving it stressed until it's gotime.
stuckinthemud:
So could you use horn side wall strips or would that introduce stability problems?
davidjw:
The images are from the book "Die Hornbogenarmbrust: Geschichte und Technik" by Holger Richter. There has to be some good reason for the complicated constructions, though it escapes me. Sure does seem like a lot of work, so I assume it's not for nothing. Loefflerchuck, you may be on to something, these weren't exactly rapid fire weapons. Perhaps stability issues are mitigated by only having a 6" draw?
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