My advanced Selfbow 45# @ 28"

[simk]

Hi All
I'm happy to post a few pics about my new hornbow. Didn't know weather I should call it primitive Hornbow or advanced Selfbow 
Drawweight is just perfect to me - the originally 52# really felt uncomfortable to handle. It's 61" measured over the back. After resting the bow has a 11" reflex and after shooting around 8" (measured from the nocks). It's shot in well by now. A friend gave me a set of matching arrows too - didn't know how straight arrows can fly; my handicap just improved 50% since 
Specs:
Ash core
Buffalo Horn
Buffalo Nocks
Beef Backstrap
Rawhide
Laburnum arrowpass
620 gramms
8 strands of bcy452x

Cheers 

[simk]

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[simk]

thanks for watching

[sleek]

Holy cow! Thats amazing!

[Hawkdancer]

That is some bow! !
Hawkdancer

[bownarra]

Very nice and i'm glad it worked out well for you.
Love the labernum arrowpass too

[Shamusrobert]

Wow, Thats pretty cool!

[AndrewS]

That's a nice primitive bow

[Pat B]

Very cool bow and a nice upgrade.   

[AndrewS]

Which glue did you use for the horn wood gluing?
For the tendons and the rawhide you certainly used hide glue. For the horn plates too?

[simk]

thanx for nice comments dudes. glad you like it.
Andrew: this time I was too lazy to glue the horns with the hide glue stuff and used some of the expensive epoxy instead 

[Del the cat]

Very cool bow
Del

[sleek]

thanx for nice comments dudes. glad you like it.
Andrew: this time I was too lazy to glue the horns with the hide glue stuff and used some of the expensive epoxy instead 

How did you prepare the surface for epoxy, and what epoxy did you use?

[simk]

thanx del 🙃

sleek: i do groove both sides well with a metal saw blade, brush them clean and glue with uhu 300 plus. but there sure are equivalent glues on the market i think. this one just has good reputation around here, is easy to work and can deal withe higher temperatures needed for heat corrections, manual says you can temper it @ 180 degree celsius👍

[bownarra]

Sleek EA40 works perfectly as well. Mix it 2:1 and you have the required resistance to heat. Flat surfaces are fine, sanded to anywhere between 120 and 60 grit.