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My horn bow build-a-long
DC:
It's time. After the last layer of sinew dried the tips were touching. I made a pegboard which I now have to remake after seeing where the holes actually have to go. :D Anyway here are the first two stretches. Should I leave it on the board for some time to stretch out? Adam suggests "working" the bow as you stretch it out. I guess I could do that in between pegs. Is this a long term project? Like stretch it out over a few days or? It wasn't very difficult to get it open this far.I don't see any sign of twisting but I'm not sure it would show up on the peg board.
DC:
I puttered away at it. I decided to try the tepliks as my pegboard wasn't giving me a warm fuzzy feeling ;). I can still go back. The fades seem stiff, there doesn't seem to be any bend in the first 5" from the centre but Adam says there's not supposed to be much bend so maybe it's OK. You can see where it starts to bend in the middle of the teplik. From the teplik out it looks horrible. I think there is too much reflex in the sal and I'm wondering if I can use heat to sort that out. Adam says not to heat the sal because you'll lose reflex but that's what I want in this case. You'll notice that I have to use a pipe to bend it so I don't think it will come in too light if I take some reflex out. The other limb behave exactly the same and the thickness taper looks OK on both.
Russ:
i would wait for a second opinion before heating it
bownarra:
The teplics are the wrong shape. They should have a slightly tighter radius than the strung bow. Don't heat the sals there is no need whatsoever and you will reduce the performance too much. This is what I meant about breaking cores :) Don't bend the bow over them.
I'm sorry but I was going to take some pictures of my pegboard for you. All the other stuff i'm busy with kicked that thought out of my mind....I will definitely take some pics for you as soon as I get back in from my morning run.
You want the pegs to sit at or just past the kasan eye.
bownarra:
Here are some pictures.
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