Korean horn bow. while im waiting...

[Robert Pougnier]

That looks fantastic!

[Mad Max]

Im very interested in the draw curve this bow has right now if you could put one together for me? I've been trying my best to make wooden bows as fast as horn bows, and this helps me out.

I know a little about horn bows, but I would thing pulling a bow 1" at a time on a tiller tree would not be very accurate because the sinew and horn would not act like a draw and release shot ( stretching and compressing for the length of time to record it)  I THINK
Awesome bow

[superdav95]

That looks fantastic!

thanks man.  I realy need to finish this one up and pretty her up. 

[superdav95]

Im very interested in the draw curve this bow has right now if you could put one together for me? I've been trying my best to make wooden bows as fast as horn bows, and this helps me out.

I know a little about horn bows, but I would thing pulling a bow 1" at a time on a tiller tree would not be very accurate because the sinew and horn would not act like a draw and release shot ( stretching and compressing for the length of time to record it)  I THINK
Awesome bow

yes. i agree.  this would be the case for any all natural material horn bow or wood bow.  less likely to be the case with modern laminated fg bows.  Ive retested one of my horn bows a month or so ago and it had gained 10lbs of draw weight at 28" over just a few months.  this bow had been finished for about a year.  moisture plays a huge part in this.  I could take this bow and draw it in ontario canada one day and then a few fly out to the much dryer alberta a few days later and draw with noticable draw weight increase.   this is due to moisture.  Many guys that go out to the salt flats find this to be the case and thus take several bows that range in weights to mitigate this gain or loss of moisture and still be at target draw weight.  it would be difficult to get acurate draw force numbers that would last is what im getting at I guess.  the horn bow is more like a living fluid moving thing that behaves differently when warmed up too.  this would also affect then numbers.   Ive been super busy witht he move and now tht that is done i can get my new shop in order and do some testing again. 

[jameswoodmot]

Dave, your photos come up as “not available in your region”, are they hosted on Flickr or anything?

[superdav95]

Dave, your photos come up as “not available in your region”, are they hosted on Flickr or anything?

Ya weird!  I just rechecked them and they are all still working for me on my end.  The photos are hosted by imgur.   The video clips too which are hosted by YouTube are working.  Not sure why you in are seeing that. 

[superdav95]

little update on this little bow.  Im trying to get this one finished up and its been good to get back at it.  ive tken over the kitchen table again! lol.  im doing a stagered pattern with birch bark wedges precut to match up.  its time consuming but i love the tediousness of it.  call me crazy but i do.  the sturgeon glue at about 10% worked great for this and adds a benefit of being realy sticky with good strength and little more flex to it the hide glue.  i tried to pre coat my bark inners surface first with glue but it was too this for this.  The thicker peices were fine but i did not want thicker bark on this bow.  the thinner the better for me on this one.  it turned out that a single layer of the birch bark was perfect and less then paper thin too.  I just applied the thin glue to each little piece as i laid it down.  worked fairly well.   making progress here in the pics.  please excuse my chaotic table mess.  there is a lot going on there i know!. lol.  thanks for following along. 

[medicinewheel]

Very nice bow, love everything about it!
Great work wit the birch bark backing!

[superdav95]

Thanks medicinewheel!  Nice of you to say.  This bow is coming along and hope to have it done this month fingers crossed.  It’s not as highly reflexed as authentic Korean horn bows.  I designed it as such being little more relaxed I guess.  It’s a lot more practical for me to get it strung up and shooting too which is nice.  I may sacrifice a little speed but time will tell how much in the end.  So far so good and in the performance aspect it is also promising.  It’s sort of a hybrid of a few different horn bows really.  I would say a mix of Korean and a little Crimean and ottoman horn bows.  I’m not really into making replicas per se although I may do some in the future.  I like adding to existing designs more and creating something a little different and experimenting with hybrids.  For me this keeps this obsession alive and kicking.   Thanks for following along.