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My horn bow build-a-long
DC:
I actually already have two natural Crabapple crooks that I can use for siyahs. I could epoxy up some limbs with the kasan eye bend out of the Eastern Maple. Hmmm
DC:
The Crabapple crooks had too tight an angle and not a sharp enough bend so I decided to laminate a couple. It's 4 layers of Eastern(Sugar) Maple. I boiled them and clamped it up. It went very smoothly and looks real good. The pieces are 2" wide so I will rip them down the middle to get two identical siyahs. It will take a month of Sundays to dry I imagine but I've got a few years in me yet ;D I also put some Douglas Maple strips in a 4" PVC tube of water to soak for a week to try that method. It's in the sun for most of the day, maybe that will improve the soaking. I'll put some disinfectant or something in with it. While I had a tube full of water and some uniform strips of Doug Maple I thought I would check it's SG. 3' strips floated with 1" sticking out so they have a .66 sg.
Russ:
--- Quote from: DC on July 02, 2019, 12:32:44 pm ---Thank you for joining in. I was thinking that no one was reading this. I wondered about laminating after my first try at bending a piece of Hazel as a test. I got quite a bit of spring back. I hadn't soaked it for a week or dried it for a week but still. It would save me building a trough to boil it in. It would also save me a month in drying. Did you use epoxy or hide glue?
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You kidding me! I love watching the horn bow build alongs! I think your doin great!
DC:
Thanks DH :D I found a way to dry the siyah lams faster.
gorazd:
5 piece construction....
Laminated siyahs are over 25cm in length - entire kasan and tip ...
I have found some pictures from project -
1. pictere of the form and
2. gluing siyahs into limbs ..
--- Quote from: DC on July 02, 2019, 03:06:52 pm ---Oh, when you say you are gluing up the siyahs with 4mm lams how much of the bow are you making? Will your siyahs include the tips and the entire kasan or will it just be the tip and the outer half of the kasan. Put another way will you have a slice in the middle of the kasan? Sorry for all the questions. :D
Nevermind I just found it in Adams book on a 5 piece the splice is in the kasan.
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