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Offline tibor

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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #15 on: August 24, 2021, 03:12:14 pm »

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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #16 on: August 24, 2021, 03:14:50 pm »
How did you splice the deer antlers together?
thank you, exactly as bownarra writes below ...

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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #17 on: August 24, 2021, 03:16:24 pm »
They are normally done with a simple lap splice and sometimes with a rivet to prevent slippage when gluing.
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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #18 on: August 24, 2021, 03:17:49 pm »
Really great looking bow.  How does it shoot?
Thank you, the bow is fast

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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #19 on: August 24, 2021, 03:18:30 pm »
Really cool recreation. Love everything about it!
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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #20 on: August 24, 2021, 03:22:22 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