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Bows / Re: Loo – Maple – Black Cherry – Osage, 39# @ 28”
« Last post by Bob Barnes on February 27, 2026, 09:18:35 am »
A beautiful bow with great attention to detail, and a new type of backing... thank you for sharing.  What type of glue do you use?  Do you wrap, clamp, or both?
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Bows / Re: Loo – Maple – Black Cherry – Osage, 39# @ 28”
« Last post by Pappy on February 27, 2026, 08:58:52 am »
Another beautiful bow, you do some beautiful work for sure. :)
 Pappy
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Bows / Re: Ash board bow... pic heavy!
« Last post by Pappy on February 27, 2026, 08:57:28 am »
Very nice work, beautiful bow for sure. :)
 Pappy
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Bows / Re: Preparing horse sinew for drying
« Last post by Pappy on February 27, 2026, 08:54:54 am »
That's looking very good.
Pappy
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Primitive Skills / Re: Life is good
« Last post by Pappy on February 27, 2026, 08:53:33 am »
Headed to the cabin for a couple of days, weather is supposed to be good so got some outside projects to get done. Got Surgery this Tuesday so want to get as much done as I can before that, it's not supposed to be a bad recovery but you never know.  :-\ Got new drink machine and cooler coming this morning and want to work on my Dog grave yard just the other side of the big pavilion, kid of messed it up with the cleaning. Lots of good dogs are laid to rest there. Hope yall have a good one. Life is Good.  ;)
 Pappy
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Bows / Re: Preparing horse sinew for drying
« Last post by jameswoodmot on February 27, 2026, 08:25:48 am »
JW, when simmering, is it ok if the sinew pieces shrivel? I put the bits I had in my slow cooker and set it to low, forgot about it and the scraps had shrivelled up from the heat. Hadn’t been like it for long and I could put my fingers in the water. I wasn’t able to measure the temperature. I assumed this would mean the glue was damaged but you suggest simmering which is hotter than this was.


Roughly pounded a tendon today. I set it in the kiln to dry and i didn’t run it for long enough, there was a little bit of mould on them when I got back but got it going for another few days and they seem fine.
Coarser than deer leg sinew but not as coarse as the deer back strap I would say.

Just one tendon and getting 15” strands, others were longer tendons.

The suspensory ligament looks quite different but breaks into slightly coarser fibres. I’ll save these and use just these ligaments on a bow and see what they’re like. Oilier than the tendons
The ligament is an energy store in the living horse and acts like a spring as it’s loaded so hopefully those properties will be transferred to the bow.
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Bows / Re: Hold my hand when I sinew my first bow
« Last post by jameswoodmot on February 27, 2026, 05:41:50 am »
Thanks again!

My fear of moisture is actually more about the wood than the sinew. It’s 85-95% humidity here and 50 degrees outside. Don’t know what the humidity is inside. It’s so hard to get white woods down to reasonably moisture content in the winter here. The only thing I can do is weight for them to stop loosing weight and hope that’s enough. Got a moisture meter on the way.


I didn’t think to weigh the bow before sinewing, I had the weight written down on the bow as I was drying it before bracing but forgot to reweigh it after.
The belly had gone from flat, the concave, to now pulling slightly convex in places now which is interesting to watch. The back isn’t going to become flat but but to me that’s more of an indication of the shrinkage than the reflex.

I’ve got one thick patch mid limb where I had too many overlaps, I think it’s going to be ok but I may file it down slightly, though as there are overlaps I don’t want to weaken that point
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Bows / Re: February BOM entires
« Last post by medicinewheel on February 27, 2026, 03:51:28 am »
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php?topic=73558.new
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Bows / Re: Ash board bow... pic heavy!
« Last post by medicinewheel on February 27, 2026, 03:46:51 am »
Thank you all for the nice replies!
Well, basically I though bowmaking would be like riding a bicycle and one wouldn't forget, but I expected it to be more wonky. Thus the ash board to start over again!

@superdav95: all wrappings are thin linen thread, dyed with Fiebing's dark brown leatherdye.
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Bows / Re: February BOM entires
« Last post by Tuomo on February 27, 2026, 03:46:34 am »
http://www.primitivearcher.com/smf/index.php/topic,73559.0.html
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