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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: darwin on February 05, 2013, 11:12:45 am

Title: horn and dry heat?
Post by: darwin on February 05, 2013, 11:12:45 am

can you bend and flatten horn using dry heat?

Title: Re: horn and dry heat?
Post by: raghorns on February 05, 2013, 11:34:23 am

YES...I use the thinner parts of cow horn by applying dry heat and clamping them tightly between pieces of wood. Some of the horn is very translucent when thin and it makes a nice effect.

Check out the "hop horn beam sinewed bow" thread a couple of pages down in the bow section.

Lyle

Title: Re: horn and dry heat?
Post by: Tom Leemans on February 05, 2013, 04:11:23 pm

Just don't be in a hurry and it'll be fine.