Main Discussion Area > Horn Bows

First attempt build a long !

<< < (18/18)

Stick Bender:
Here is a bow of similar design found in the Ural mountains of Russia #3 note how the belly core is flat and the horn rounded the others are American Indian west region bows not a lot is known about the Ural bow other then it was comon in the area !

Stick Bender:
Your right Mike it's hard to make all your points and come accross on the right note, I have learned every thing about making bows threw correspondence & reading and school of hard knocks...lol so interpreting thoughts from people via words is tuff or exspressing what your trying to accomplish doesent always come accross right , and there is no dought the old ways are superior and more work intensive I know that , That's why I choose this design not trying to short cut or I'm not a lazy person I just have very little time for bows so any thing I can do to simplifie or speed my proseses I do whith the caveat not effecting performance for the design that's why I choose this design over a more traditional one I was  originaly going to make a form, fire hose system to put the horn on & hot box like a glass bow but decided not to,all though bet it would work  I don't exspect my bow will be perfect on my first one fore sure I'm just trying to get a solid hunting bow threw non traditional methods using mostly natural material , I know Adam used smooth on , on some bows to ! But a lot is learned from the old ways & the old material and I'm going to try one like that in the future.

BowEd:
Mike...So to talk sensibly about the dynamics of limb strain you don't think by crowning the sinew that it helps with the poison effect and make the sinew more efficient?Soild thinking is behind that too and stated in Adams' book.I totally realize Adam Karpowicz investigated and worked out more things about cultural horn bows than I ever have or will.
The bow Ritch wants to make the way he wants to there will hold up IMHO.Speaking within the context of this design.If not every sinewed self bow would be delaminating and blowing apart.There is'nt all that much strain on that design.With your shorter more extremely tight bending type cultural horn bow I can definitely see the reasons why.From what I've read it's for steam bending reasons the exchange of back to belly orientation use.
A regular cultural type horn bow is a completely different animal then what Ritch is trying to make.Context crossing of construction statements should'nt be confused here.To me it's all about the ending thickness for draw poundage no matter what way it is done.
I can definitely see why starting out with a thicker core before rope wrapping the horn onto the core will reduce most if any twisting occuring on turkish horn bows.Then reducing core thickness to accept thickness of sinew to get final thoughtof thickness.This is not the case here with the bow that Ritch is constructing.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page