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50" Stone Sheep Horn Bow
ChristopherHwll:
Thank you loon. Yes it has static recurves.
loon:
Looks like the perfect no-wood horn bow :D
What are you using to tan the hides?
LEGIONNAIRE:
this is so coooooool! bows look very clean.
Redhand:
Very nice sir. I can hardly wait to see how the bow turns out.
ChristopherHwll:
Thank you for the compliments LEGIONNAIRE and Redhand. I can't wait to shoot it! Patience is my friend on this one. Loon I brain tan my hides and then smoke them. I use my osage shavings to make ash for de-hairing if I am making rawhide. Eggs work if you you can't get the brain from the animal, and if you prefer "something over the counter" the Trapper's Hide and Fur solution works excellent too. As far as tools I built a nifty burnt finished fleshing beam from an osage log that has an interchangable hide stretching post top. It matches the shaving horse I built. Here is a pic of each one. I am a bladesmith as well so I hammer forge all of my own tools. The draw knife that is on the shaving horse and in some of my bow rack pics posted above is one I made from a coil spring.
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