Thanks fellas...Means a lot from you bow makers there.Feels better than a at a boy response from the wife or excuse me exwife I tell ya that......LOL.
Lee....Now I knew someone would ask me this and that's ok.I mean about the thicknesses of stuff here.Asiatic bows are generally built with the 1/3,1/3,1/3 ratio.This bow was scaled down to about 1/4,1/2,1/4.
There are 3 and 1/2 courses of sinew.Next one will be at least 4.That sinew is some amazing stuff.It wants to work so just put it to work I say.The horn is right at .095 th. or at least 3/32".I reverse braced it during both applications to put the horn in tension and the sinew in compression or better to make the sinew work more.The horns' surface was scratched lengthwise with just a hackssaw and the bows' belly was too.I used a 1 and 1/2" wide inner tube and wrapped it to put the horn on.Jeff Scmidt says it does'nt always have to be grooved.Every culture did it a little different.There are Turkish,Korean,Chinese,Indian,Mongolian etc.
There are shear forces at work there at the glue line so it will hold.I've done three other bamboo backed hickory horn bellied bows in an R/D design on forms and they were ok but not to the degree of performance this bow has.It's the SINEW fellas it is amazing stuff.
So I had an idea how much poundage I could get from my horn thickness.I started with a tillered 25#@28" bow.Applied my horn and sinew.After 2 months I had a 75# bow.Right on track.A 2 to 1 ratio of composites to wood draw weight.The composite surfaces I figure are doing at least 70% of the work.My goal was to make a more durable bow[i.e. longer string time of most concern here] with a design to enhance performance.I shoot with a bunch of glass bow shooters at #D shoots and I wanted to piss em off.It does shoot faster than most of their bows all except a 52" Kodiak Recurve a fella has.So there it is fellas get after it.
