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thegreatwhale:
I perused through searches trying to find if anyone has spiral cut gemsbok horn. I've most often seen them cut in half and then using dry heat, flattened and trimmed down to whatever thickness is desired. Is there a benefit of having two separate pieces for the limbs vs. having one continuous piece? In my mind you could mark a spiral up the horn, for the sake of easy numbers, leaving one inch between the lines spiraled all the way up to the tip or wherever it becomes solid. Then it looks like a cork screw that would only have the natural bend of the horns radius, which I believe would get increasingly smaller the farther up you go. Wouldn't that yield a longer continuous piece of horn? Also, why is it always dry heat bending when it comes to horn and not boiling it? Will boiling it for short periods of time deteriorate it significantly? I am not planning on doing a horn bow for a very very long time, but I was curious about this and figured with the new horn bow section that this would be the place to ask!

-Kegan

4giveme:
Here is something you may like. I have treys to research this and have not found any other info then whatsin the thread. I've tried to contact this the originator of the thread to no avail. I hope I don't get in trouble with this but is the link http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,13877.0.html
 :laugh:

Pat B:
I was just gonna suggest you look up Timo's post with spiral cut bison horn.

thegreatwhale:
That was an awesome build! The end result was fantastic without a doubt, I wish Timo was still hanging around here, I definitely want to know if over time the cutting across grain of the horn resulted in a problem or not?
So what about the second question, would there be any benefit of having a single piece of horn that is long enough to do the entire belly of a bow vs. having a piece for each limb?

bubby:
I was messaging back and forth with timo a while back asking him about that and although it worked he said he wouldn't do it again I guess it has some deffinate problems, why would you have to spiral cut gemsbock? Joined at the handle is no problem while the spiral cut will create unnecessary work, just my two cents worth

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