My advanced Selfbow 45# @ 28"

[simk]

interesting bownarra, so many people, so many approaches   

[DC]

That's a beauty. I've still got two pieces of horn.

[willie]

 

[bownarra]

interesting bownarra, so many people, so many approaches   

yes many ways to skin the proverbial....
I've never used it on a full sized bow but this is the way I make the 1/2 size mini hornbows. They are great fun and allow you to try ideas out with bits of waste materials.

[backtowood B2W]

Great job Simon !!
Love the look, how is this design called? Yrtzi bows or something like that, right?
Greets from pinzgau!

[simk]

Thanx DC! You will do that hornbow after you broke that record  looking forward!

Thanx willie!

Bownarra: I just groove because I think it's a simple and very effective way to strengthen any glueline and in that case because the glueing of the horns to me seems the most critical part of the build. I also groove critical wood laminations, because its so easy and gives a good feeling  Those 1/2 size mini hornbow are fun sure - do you shoot them in the living room? 

Martin: This design just happend to me when I started doing Moellegabets with reflexed levers in the 13/17 ratio in 2018. So I claim this specific design for myself. I did it as selfbows, sinewbacked and then hornbows. The ones I did for you are out of this series too. I later found out, that Yrtzis and Mongolians are similar indeed but I never really examined them and can't say what the differences may are...
Cheers

[Digital Caveman]

That's an amazing design, and it looks great to!  It reminds me of the composite longbow mentioned in the chapter Design and Performance Revisited in TTB 4.  Now if only I could get some good horn ...

[sleek]

As if I dont have enough to do, you have given me another project....

[Digital Caveman]

By the way, is that American Bison or Water Buffalo Horn? Did you cut the strip out in a spiral or straight off the outside of the curve?
Thanks,

[simk]

thanks tradcraftsman, i will check that out in tbb4 its the outsides of water buffalo horns.

sorry sleek, I do apoligize 😁

[Rākau]

woweee, that is amazing, how does it shoot compared to your self and sinew backed models?

[simk]

Rakau: 1.2.3. Hornbow 4. Selfbow 5. Sinew Backed
If I had heated reflex in before sinewing this one probably ended 4th place...it's a learning process...reflex and string tension seems to be the key. cheers
i will do more of them. it's intetesting to stay at the same design for a while. will do another elm (,it sadly broke when overdrawing) and would like to check out black locust  and ash also 😁 always busy with projects 🤪

[BoltBows]

Very cool bow! Great work!

[bownarra]

If you want to get more performance tiller the horn version to have a more abrupt bend right out of the fades. This will give a longer return path and store more energy.

[simk]

that's a good point bownarra  that was the plan - already with this one - but it's not so easy to properly hinge a bow - still learning 
the hinge will also help for good string tension, wouldn't't it?