Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Horn Bows => Topic started by: stuckinthemud on November 07, 2015, 06:35:31 pm
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Does anyone know of a thread for building a horn-bow style bow without using horn? I think Pat may have posted a build-along once upon a time??
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I don't remember the issue of Primitive Archer it was in but I built one that broke and Chris Cade made a shooter with his. Though it wasn't a very good performing bow.
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In the Laubin book there are pics of sinew backed osage bows in the style of hornbows. May be they haven't the long drawlength?
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Your talking about the turk bow in laubins book, not really a horn bow look just a sinew backed osage painted to look like one
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http://www.hornbow.com/pa1098.html
I have made this style of bow, I was not happy with the performance though.....
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James Parker built a sinew backed, wood core and tempered(SCORCHED!)bamboo belly Asiatic horn bow style bow. That little booger would spit an arrow(@45#-50#) like nobody's business. I saw James shoot through a chrono, with a thumb ring at well over 200fps with a lightish carbon arrow and over 190fps with a 500gr hunting arrow.
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James Parker built a sinew backed, wood core and tempered(SCORCHED!)bamboo belly Asiatic horn bow style bow. That little booger would spit an arrow(@45#-50#) like nobody's business. I saw James shoot through a chrono, with a thumb ring at well over 200fps with a lightish carbon arrow and over 190fps with a 500gr hunting arrow.
I'd love to see any video or pictures of this bow
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Tc, that was the article I was talking about. To me , it shot like a dog, very sluggish.
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He may have posted it here on PA. Do a search.
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Pat didn't James have a all boo bow get boy that was a sweet bow
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Bubby, yes he did. Also, I think Mecshlasher, Chris Cade won BOM with the one from the PA article about 10 years ago.
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Found the thread in March 2009 BOM archive, no pictures though :-[
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Found the thread in March 2009 BOM archive, no pictures though :-[
"removed by admin", the bane of my bow-porn addiction, lol.
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@bubby
yeah, this is what stuckinthemud has asked for....a bow, looks like a hornbow and without horn....
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Thanks Guys, lots to think about
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I think the reason horn bows are horn bows and wood bows are wood bows is because they perform best if we design them t suit the materials they were mad from. I have never seen a wood bow built like a horn bow perform as well as a wood bow designed as a good wood bow. LOL>
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I don't know as much about bow making as I would like but but I gotta ask myself on a comparison between wood bows and horn bows where do the bows' limbs work.On a wooden bow you want it spread evenly throughout the limb most times.On a horn bow and I mean a turkish style one it works in a lot smaller area like about 6 to 8 inches close to the handle.To me the speed horn bows get is from that small working area.Very hard to get wood to do that.
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Mollegabet bows look like Han dynasty horn bows, but without an angle at the lever transition or setback handle to me. Guess one could do a nice Han-like wood bow if it's sinew backed in the working limbs. The compression pine siberian/scandinavian bows look kind of like Manchu bows sometimes.