Main Discussion Area > Horn Bows

working on Assyrian bow

(1/6) > >>

leehongyi:
well, it's nearly morning here in China and I have to go sleeping or I cannot prepare breakfast for my son before school.
This assyrian bow initially was made as an American flat bow for my boy but during steaming I found this mulberry stick absorbed too much water and bent. I didn't want to waste such beautiful yellow wood so I cut it into two parts as limb, and used Russian ash as grip and Chinese osage as siyahs.
Total length is grip10cm+limbs46cm*2+siyahs15cm*2=132cm. Not finished yet and the siyahs are going to be shortened after tiller.

leehongyi:
After gluing up, the shaping of siyahs and preparing back sinew

leehongyi:
Then I flattened the elk horn piece of grip and added more sinew to make it more reflex.

leehongyi:
After 4th layer it looks pretty transparent. I use a musical instrument silk string for tiller. After all it doesn't appear as a triangle maybe because of the slight deflection of grip.
It's about 35lbs or so and decoration is to be draw later.

BowEd:
Interesting bow leehomgyi.Very nice work.I like it.You did good in your spare time from your family.Mulberry is beautiful wood.How thick was your core intially before sinewing?These middle eastern style of bows are unique as an egyption angular type bow.A triangle is usually expected as you said at brace.Could be the handle is longer or longer fade stiffness overall?From the belly side of your bow though there is not much deflex overall in the handle.I'm not a follower of the step through method to be bracing bows.Would a peg board work well to brace?I imagine no grooving of horn & core was done.They look very pleasant to shoot.Show more pics too when she's all finished up.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page