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DuBois:
Just wondering how you guys fix the leather or other type of pads that the string rests on and strikes when released.
What materials do you typically use for these and what glues?
Ever use them on working recurves?
Thanks,
Marco

BowEd:
Dubois....Lots of times super glue soaked and layered vegetable tanned leather filed and sanded to likeable shape works very well.I've used horn before too.Any good durable hardwood can be used I'd think too.
I've never put them on working recurves.

Bjoern Sofeit:
You can use leather, but antler is the authentic material for that. Just score it and glue it with hideglue, heating and sizing a couple of times with very low % and then 10% and finally thick glue.

loon:
Tried duco cement, it failed
super glue gel worked.
It was a rather rubber-like string bridge, glued onto wood. so it's strange that the duco didn't work, unless it was some sort of soft flexible plastic. Maybe I just didn't wait long enough (over an hour). But the super glue gel made a very strong bond, very quickly
Leather was authentic on Korean bows. Maybe crimean tatar. And in manchuarchery.org it says that the tsagaan khad bow had leather string bridges. I guess antler was more authentic on Manchu bows

Bjoern Sofeit:
Antler is without doubt the authentic material for CTs and turkish bows. The bows with bridges from Dresden, Vienna (HGM & Rüstkammer), the Skokloster, the Grayson collection, National Museum of Bargello and the Topkapi all have antler bridges.

It depends what you mean by old korean bows, the ones that are less than 100 years old definitely have leather pads. The one in Crepy and the one in the military museum in Seoul seem to have curiously high string bridges that could also be wooden. I'll find out what it is.

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