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DC:
I'm going to start this with a quote from Gorazd from the other thread.


--- Quote from: gorazd on June 26, 2019, 03:10:56 pm ---
The thinnest part will go on the siyahs... more important is enough thickness left in the bending part of the horn - there should be at least 5-6mm ... considering that you must sand both parts to be of the equal thickness along whole length. And during this sanding you will loose some thickness...

--- End quote ---

5-6mm,, that's just enough to make me think I can rip these strips in half. Dangerous thought. That 5-6 mm, what weight bow would that give or is the weight more determined by the thickness of the core?

DC:
Considering the trouble that Mafort had straightening his horn should I bother trying to straighten this (almost) 1/2" thick horn. It would make it a lot easier to work on if it was straight(er)

Mafort:
My advice is to thin it. I thinned it down to a quarter inch and then soaked for 2 days and boiled. Straightened out with no issues.

DC:
When you were thinning it did you flatten the outside to a "finish surface" and then remove the bulk of the horn from the inner surface? One of the reasons I wanted to flatten it now was to make it easier to remove material from the inside on the belt sander.

DC:
3 of the 4 strips I got have this little white stripe on the inside surface. Is this something I should be avoiding? Maybe do most of my grinding from this side to try and get past it. It's in the future centre of the limb so my selfbow brain tells me it's nothing to worry about but I'd better check.

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