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My horn bow build-a-long
DC:
Thanks gorazd The area around the first nut is around 8mm thick(3.5 horn and 4.5 wood) and 23mm wide. The handle is made from Ocean Spray, a very hard, dense, stiff wood and the end of the "V" joint is at the 16mm mark. My limbs are almost parallel, 24mm tapering to 23mm at the kasan/tip bend.
So should I be going down to 7mm from the second nut going back 15-20cm toward the handle or should I be down to 7mm at the 10cm point?
Sorry for all the questions, I don't want to mess up now and dump 4 months down the tube.
gorazd:
Here is it :
"https://i.imgur.com/Tv4zuhF.png" - to make the bow bend more near the handle...
And ... I would recommend to thin down the section marked with red too - and make shorter kasan ....
DC:
Great, thanks. I've been lurking on the German forum "Fletchers Corner" and I'm waiting to get accepted there. There is some mention of test bending before sinewing on there. Have you heard of that?
gorazd:
Yes, I have heard about test bending before sinewing.
But I did not try ...
I used bamboo wood core and did test bending of the 5mm bamboo only - around the same bending raidus as future turkish bow - the bamboo survived, so I correctly exppected that 3mm core wood in composite would be no problem even I put sinew in thinner layers ...
--- Quote from: DC on October 05, 2019, 06:59:21 pm ---Great, thanks. I've been lurking on the German forum "Fletchers Corner" and I'm waiting to get accepted there. There is some mention of test bending before sinewing on there. Have you heard of that?
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DC:
Time to start sorting sinew I guess. It's all shredded so it's just make piles and weigh out clumps. I'll save the final shaping for the last minute so I have fresh wood.
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