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My new Hornbow
bownarra:
Interesting about the vinegar. I'll look into it and do some testing.
Marc St Louis:
I've heard of vinegar being added to hide glue but it wasn't for the purpose of making it more flexible or stronger, in fact I heard it weakened the glue a bit. What I read was that it was added to reduce it's gel point
bownarra:
Well the vinegar reduced the strength of my test glue-ups enough that I won't use it on a bow.
I find that simply doing the different processes when the weather suits is the best way. Even in cold spring England there are ways around the glues gelling.
Corvus:
Vinegar seems like a bad idea especially when using already lower grade glues like rabbit(low collagen) and liquid pre-mix
simk:
Hey, it's not my invention. It's just from scientific studys of the Munich techincal University about various ancient glueing recipies. It's tested on all types of many hornbows. If this one will fail its only due to my incapability ;D
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