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Main Discussion Area => Horn Bows => Topic started by: tibor on August 05, 2021, 04:10:43 am

Title: plains antler bow Hidatsa
Post by: tibor on August 05, 2021, 04:10:43 am: plains antler bow Hidatsa 40 inch long 45 # @ 23 "made of deer antlers and deer sinew
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Post by: tibor on August 05, 2021, 04:12:06 am: foto
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Post by: tibor on August 05, 2021, 04:13:25 am: foto
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Post by: BowEd on August 05, 2021, 08:23:53 am: Sweeet.Some nice character to those limbs.Nice touch with the beadwork also.That was a pretty good sized deer.Sinew or rawhide string???I see your into brain tanning too.
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Post by: Parnell on August 05, 2021, 02:40:02 pm: Fascinating, really good looking bow! I think I recall seeing that example in the Encyclopedia of Native American bows? Very well done.
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Post by: bownarra on August 06, 2021, 02:50:47 am: Pretty cool bow :) Nicely made and decorated.
Do you plan on making a wooden cored hornbow some time?
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Post by: Greg Hertel on August 09, 2021, 08:27:03 pm: Really nice!
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Post by: boomhowzer on August 19, 2021, 10:29:33 pm: How did you splice the deer antlers together?
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Post by: bownarra on August 20, 2021, 02:37:55 am: They are normally done with a simple lap splice and sometimes with a rivet to prevent slippage when gluing.
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Post by: WhistlingBadger on August 20, 2021, 12:50:24 pm: Really great looking bow. How does it shoot?
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Post by: organic_archer on August 21, 2021, 10:03:53 am: Really cool recreation. Love everything about it!
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Post by: boomhowzer on August 21, 2021, 01:20:02 pm: The antlers must have been straightened somehow and scraped or sanded flat? Is there a good book or other resource on antler bows. This thing is beautiful and I am so curious about how to make one.
Title: Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
Post by: tibor on August 24, 2021, 03:07:21 pm: Quote from: BowEd on August 05, 2021, 08:23:53 am
Sweeet.Some nice character to those limbs.Nice touch with the beadwork also.That was a pretty good sized deer.Sinew or rawhide string???I see your into brain tanning too.
thank you, bowstring is a Dacron b50 ... yes, sometimes I do brain tanning
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Post by: tibor on August 24, 2021, 03:08:43 pm: Quote from: Parnell on August 05, 2021, 02:40:02 pm
Fascinating, really good looking bow! I think I recall seeing that example in the Encyclopedia of Native American bows? Very well done.
Thank you, I saw a similar bow in the British Museum
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Post by: tibor on August 24, 2021, 03:11:06 pm: Quote from: bownarra on August 06, 2021, 02:50:47 am
Pretty cool bow :) Nicely made and decorated.
Do you plan on making a wooden cored hornbow some time?
thank you, i don't plan to do bow horn - wood - sinew, i'm most interested in native american bow and horn bow and you were just horn and sinew
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Post by: tibor on August 24, 2021, 03:12:14 pm: Quote from: Greg Hertel on August 09, 2021, 08:27:03 pm
Really nice!
thanks
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Post by: tibor on August 24, 2021, 03:14:50 pm: Quote from: boomhowzer on August 19, 2021, 10:29:33 pm
How did you splice the deer antlers together?
thank you, exactly as bownarra writes below ...
Title: Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
Post by: tibor on August 24, 2021, 03:16:24 pm: Quote from: bownarra on August 20, 2021, 02:37:55 am
They are normally done with a simple lap splice and sometimes with a rivet to prevent slippage when gluing.
yes ...
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Post by: tibor on August 24, 2021, 03:17:49 pm: Quote from: WhistlingBadger on August 20, 2021, 12:50:24 pm
Really great looking bow. How does it shoot?
Thank you, the bow is fast
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Post by: tibor on August 24, 2021, 03:18:30 pm: Quote from: organic_archer on August 21, 2021, 10:03:53 am
Really cool recreation. Love everything about it!
thanks
Title: Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
Post by: tibor on August 24, 2021, 03:22:22 pm: Quote from: boomhowzer on August 21, 2021, 01:20:02 pm
The antlers must have been straightened somehow and scraped or sanded flat? Is there a good book or other resource on antler bows. This thing is beautiful and I am so curious about how to make one.
I cut the antler in half, then cooked it for 30 minutes and then straightened it ... Reginald Laubin writes about it in the book American Indian Archery