Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Horn Bows => Topic started by: stuckinthemud on November 16, 2016, 10:50:11 am
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Hi Guys,
I really like the look of the Tibetan-style bows, with their shorter sijahs. Anybody built an Asiatic style bow with a wood core (as opposed to Korean bamboo bows)?
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James parker has built a Chinese bow.
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manchuarchery.org has the build process of one
Also hornbowyers and ATARN on facebook, though it's mostly tatar, turkish and magyar bows. yokhua has made several though. Also someone made a ming style and a mongol style bow. Also Alex Wittenaar made several Mongol style horn bows, at least one with a black locust core.
I think the good thing about bamboo is that it's more accessible and maybe don't have to worry about knots or grain violations like with wood??
facebook.com/Horn-bows-305667916138490/
I haven't ever seen nor heard of anyone that wasn't an actual Korean horn bowyer build an accurate looking Korean target bow .. closest was the bamboo bow posted recently
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I think the question was, ( as opposed to Korean bamboo bows).
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yeah, that sounds like any asiatic bows with wooden cores, not just korean bows with wooden cores O_o
By Korean bamboo bows, you don't mean also korean bows with bamboo cores but horn belly?
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There are more countries and styles in Asia besides Korea. That's what I was getting at, and James has built a Korean horn bow. I saw it when I was at his house picking up my Chinese horn bow.
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he should post pics :o
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I wish he would. I know he is real bust trying to get his new Bow Company up and running and filling lots of orders.