bighorn sheep Hidatsa style bow.

[swamp monkey]

BEE - UTE -E - FULL !!

[SLIMBOB]

Very cool stuff Sir!  I'm a fan.

[rps3]

That is something for sure. Very cool.

[Pat B]

Excellent little horn bow, Chuck. Very well done. 

[Parnell]

Chuck,  curious about the form.  So, in the picture, you've got the bow sinewed and cured, then you slowly clamp the bow to that form before stringing to a brace for the first time?  That's done just with pressure, no heat or anything?  Do you put much reflex into the horns before sinewing?

I've watched the Sheepeater bow video and the guy puts in the "step" of each limb pre sinewing.  Does the form accomplish this in a more efficient way, later?

These bows always make me have questions.

[Accipiter]

Wow, the amount of bend in that thing at full draw is wild! Really impressive bow you got there, your customer is lucky.

[Peacebow_Coos]

Wow, the amount of bend in that thing at full draw is wild! Really impressive bow you got there, your customer is lucky.

+1 WOW

[mullet]

Wow, the amount of bend in that thing at full draw is wild! Really impressive bow you got there, your customer is lucky.

+1 WOW

++1WOW, another museum piece.

[Bowman]

Top of the line. Awesome bow. Very very cool. :-)

[Markus]

Oh yes 

[Joec123able]

Wow that is incredible

[KellyG]

Those things are awesome.

[lostarrow]

You make the most interesting bows ! Great stuff. Thanks for sharing

[loefflerchuck]

Thank you everybody. Jon W, your welcome in my shop any time. Beadman, yes it is a combo of heat and removal of horn. There is no wood core i nthese bows so the horn is cut through to make as strait a piece to start with before steam shaping. Boiling horn for more than 10 min starts to degrade the horn and horn has a good memory and twist returns. So starting with a strait strip helps. Parnell, I use this form to slow bend it to work the limbs at first. I also steam a setback handle after the handle is spliced together before sinew. The reflex as well as the recurved tips(5 curve) is natural and is due to the horns memory. The sinew doubles this so you are left with a deep c when the bow is ready to bend.

[bowsandroses]

Man that is sweet sir! I researched in to our local central Oregon Natives and that took me fairly far into the research of the Shoshoni nation eastern, western and sub tribes. To see this bow looking so historically accurate is just plain awesome