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Alternative ways of putting horn bows together

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Aaron H:
There are other ways of doing it.... it’s just none of them work  ;)

Stick to the tried and true ways, practice, and you will have success.  If not, best of luck to you.

bownarra:

You are of course absolutely within your rights to 'strongly disagree' - no problem. I can't wait to see the bow you make with your alternative methods. Comparing a wheel to a hornbow is a little off the mark though :)
Hornbows are incredible things - I respectfully suggest you make a few to get a fuller understanding of what you are talking about. I'm onto about number 20.

AndrewS:
@hanibal

search  for grozerarchery from hungary and have a look on the biocomposit bows of grozer. Csaba Grozer describes his method to produce this bows: "the middle layers of wood, the inner layer of pressed horn, while the outer layer of pressed sinew plate. These two layers are glued to the wooden plate by modern glue and the glued layer gets a fibre strengthening."

I think it is not really primitive cause the fibre strengthening is some sort of glasfibre and the glues are expoy and/or modern carpenters glue but Csaba build this sort of bows since 15 or more years.  He also builds horn composit bows in the traditional way. Then he uses fishbladder glue.

BowEd:
Rather odd and disconnected comparing a wheel to a bow.A bow is a working piece [bending] and a wheel is stationary [fixed].

JW_Halverson:
You know, it was not that long ago we had someone in here stirring the pot in a remarkably similar manner. Picking a subject, posting contrarian cherry picked data and looking to start trouble. This person had never built a single bow in their life, had zero experience, but somehow felt the need to contradict known experts in the field.

Something smells funny again.

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