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WhistlingBadger:
So, what is the back and what is the belly?  Is it recurved or deflexed?
T

bjrogg:

--- Quote from: WhistlingBadger on November 12, 2019, 12:42:28 pm ---So, what is the back and what is the belly?  Is it recurved or deflexed?
T

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I'm thinking it's a very similar unbraced profile to the bow that Marc just posted.
Bjrogg
Which if I'm correct is kinda cool because it would mean it didn't sit around for several hundred years strung.

Pat B:
James Parker has an Egyptian angular bow like this that he built. He usually brings it to the Classic. I've shot it and it shoots quite well. I think it is made of horn, wood and sinew like most Asiatic horn bows are made.

Parnell:
You are seeing them unstrung and reflexed.  When strung that point at the grip is forward and the bow is almost triangular.  If you google Egyptian horn bow it will come up in images.

Pat, I was considering it today how North Africa-Egypt had adopted the Asiatic building techniques.  Then I started wondering which cultures composite bows came first...the Far East?  Or does the composition start in Egypt?  Mesopotamia?  I wonder...

Pat B:
Steve, it might be hard to determine who was first. Just like bows in general were developed on every continent except Australia and the Antarctic at about the same time, around 12,000 years ago. 

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