Wooden Magyar Horsebows

[PatM]

Here's a couple of wooden Magyar style horsebows I'm working on. Heat treated Elm with Ash Siyahs.

[M-P]

Hi,  Cool looking bows.   Good luck with the rest of the project. 
Zen--- He specified ash siyahs on an elm bow.   Sorta has to be spliced.        Ron

[Marc St Louis]

Nice to see you posting bows again Pat.

Zen. It does say "Ash Siyahs"

[M-P]

It would be nice to know how the splices are made.    Ron

[Josh]

nice bows!!  can't wait to see them finished up!!! Look good so far     -josh

[NOMADIC PIRATE]

Cool project !!

[PatM]

Thanks guys. The splices are just simple v-splices about  4 inches long. The Ash is edge grained cut to the shallow curve. One bow was deliberately left thick in the splice area so just wrapping will be sufficient to reinforce it. The other had recurved tips cut off it, so the splice is a bit thin.  I'll add an underlay to that to reinforce the area.
 There is nothing really different about this style of bow, it's just an alternate method of  achieving static tips and getting that classic horsebow look.
 It's also a bit easier to achieve stable tips this way.

[Pat B]

Will you post a pic of the siyah splice?   Are you intending to keep these wood only or add horn(or tempered boo) and sinew later?

[PatM]

 Sure I can. I thought everyone knew what a v was though   They are tempered and I can't imagine horn or tempered boo is going to do much for longer bows like this. Certainly sinew shouldn't be needed for such a tension strong wood as Ellm.

[dragonman]

Looking good, I will be interested to see them finnished and here how they perform,( I too would like to see a close of the v- splice). I've seen nearly identical bows of elm with sinew backs before!!! good luck

[mox1968]

they both look great ,I wouldnt mind seeing a build along of these type of bows (big hint!!)

[Marc St Louis]

How about a back or belly view Pat, just to see the limb shape  Also how long is it?

[PatM]

Will  get some pics of the back and belly views and splices. Essentially the limbs are very much like a Holmegaard which has been cut off just past the step-in on the outer limbs and had angled tips glued on. Working part of the limbs are around 2 inches wide.  Along the curves they are around 61 and 64 inches give or take.

[makenzie71]

Have you gotten these down to brace yet?  I would love to see that.

[sulphur]

PatM, i think you just kicked an ant hill.   I would love to see some more specifications.  you make a really fine lookin bow.  I've been thinking about this design since you posted them on the LW.