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Offline 2treks

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Buffalo horn
« on: February 11, 2011, 06:22:00 PM »
I am looking for a place to buy high quality horn for horn bow making. Water buff or watusi will be good.Interested in any or all horn.PM me or post up what you know,my old supply is no more. Thanks a bunch.
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Offline Mike Most

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Re: Buffalo horn
« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2011, 07:52:00 PM »
Not sure if this is what your looking for Chuck but Crazycrow.com has buffalo horn.  :campfire:
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Re: Buffalo horn
« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2011, 08:41:00 PM »
I'm looking for sawn 36 inch Osage Billets. Anyone know where I can get them?

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Re: Buffalo horn
« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2011, 08:44:00 PM »
I am thinking about the asian type of buffalo. I had a contact for hatbone.com but the site no longer will come up,they had strips of horn ready for bow building. The American Bison horn is to short for what I need. Thanks though Mike. That is a neat site,Lots of cool stuff.
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Re: Buffalo horn
« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2011, 08:50:00 PM »
Chuck, check e-bay. Go to sports, then do a search for buffalo horn.

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Re: Buffalo horn
« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2011, 09:00:00 PM »
I looked on the bay some but not many bigger pieces. I will look more. Thanks Roy
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Re: Buffalo horn
« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2011, 09:45:00 PM »
Isn't there a guy in the Philipeans that sells Asian buff horns. His name is Pete. I bet Google knows him.
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Re: Buffalo horn
« Reply #7 on: February 11, 2011, 09:48:00 PM »
You might also check out Yumi Bows.  Jaap makes Asian style bows and was always a good source for horn tips for ELB's.

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Re: Buffalo horn
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2011, 09:06:00 AM »
I have a friend that supplies me horn from Thailand and i use it only for composite bows,He hand picks matching pairs.I am going to be getting some horn shortly and can get some extra if you are interested.

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Re: Buffalo horn
« Reply #9 on: February 16, 2011, 09:09:00 PM »
You might try archeryhornproducts@aik,in
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Re: Buffalo horn
« Reply #10 on: February 17, 2011, 12:20:00 PM »
Mike Westvang (Wingnut) at Dryad used to do watusi horn on some of his bows. Might give him a shout.
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Re: Buffalo horn
« Reply #11 on: February 17, 2011, 01:09:00 PM »
Gemsbuk is another option.  Very easy to get and fairly inexpensive.   Just a bit more work to flatten.

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Re: Buffalo horn
« Reply #12 on: February 17, 2011, 05:56:00 PM »
As allways, your right, Pat:) The guy in the Philipeans is Peter Cua. [email protected] Another supplier is Highland Horn in Scotland.  www.highlandhorn.com
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Re: Buffalo horn
« Reply #13 on: February 17, 2011, 06:40:00 PM »
Gemsbok is fairly easy, John has a good tutorial down in how to section.
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