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horse hair on belly of bow
GlisGlis:
have a read here(remove empty spaces)
Microstructure and mechanical properties of different keratinous horns
https :// royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2018.0093
sleek:
--- Quote from: pierce_schmeichel on November 08, 2023, 12:23:48 pm ---
--- Quote from: sleek on November 08, 2023, 10:08:00 am ---I have done experiments with this using my own hair. I've grown my hair down to my waist line several times and cut it off for this very purpose. I used hide glue to secure hair to one bow limb that had a hinge in it. The hair worked to stiffen the hinge, and made the limb as a whole stronger than the other limb. The problem I encountered was that hair is slick and glue does not hold it very well. I'm going to try some acid to see if I can etch the hair sheath so the glue bonds better. Then there is the issue of air bubbles, it's a solvable problem, but a problem no less.
Point is, yes, it will work. But my gosh what a pain in the a. I'm this far into it, I'm going to finish the project, then never do it again.
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sweet! So someone has tried it! and yeah I was thinking maybe even dunking the hair into a lye solution to pull all of the oils off from the hair. Maybe even a wood ash solution to keep it in the primitive realm. Also I suppose with the bubbles you could try the torch technique. Heat the glue up with a torch or heat gun and the glue liquifies more and then the bubbles float to the surface and pop...Was there a problem with the glue buckling/ cracking at all?
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The problem with the torch technique you describe is that hair doesn't lay flat. You need the hair compressed into as tight a bundle as you can get it without removing all the glue via squeeze out. So I wrapped my limb in wet stretched rawhide, then let it dry, as it dried in the sun, the glue stayed liquefied, and the rawhide shrunk, pressing the hair into a tight bundle. The glue did crack and buckle in very small areas. That was fixable with superglue however.
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