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240's sheep horn bow build with Tom Lucas
NorthHeart:
For the method of bending the shape i used a form and a heatgun(carefully). I must give credit here to Wizardgoat, i used his form shape as guidance for making mine. Also i know Chuck uses forms of a somewhat similar design, so thanks to both these gents for paving the way. If it weren't for deflexing on the form, im not sure that this particular bow would have a chance of holding at brace with out flipping around, as the string attempts to slide around the narrow limb area near the nocks. This is still my biggest fear, and i may still use more sinew to try and build this area up even wider. I had to make 3 strings just to get one with small enough loops to go over the horn.
NorthHeart:
I heated the larger of the two bows into a similar shape. It is now at brace too. We will see what happens from here.
loefflerchuck:
You've done a great job! Like I told you you can reheat the bow with the sharp hinge bends but this time use clamps on every inch of the limb to keep one spot from hinging. It either happened from that spot heating to bending temp first or maybe a slightly thinner spot. Check it with a caliper and even out that bend. I think the safest way is wrapping the limb with a heating pad and clamp to shape on the form
wizardgoat:
Coming along great, I agree with Chuck, although I’ve never used his heat pad idea.
My last horn bow had many heat gun sessions, very short blasts then quickly clamp.
NorthHeart:
I heated the bigger horn bow on the lower limb in order to make the deflex a bit more smooth.
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