A Indians trip to the Asians steps

[Buemaker]

I think it looks very good in the last pic, interesting. Bue--

[scars]

Thanks Buemaker,

It is a little bit of all the composite bows of and from the Asian archery heritage that I found interesting.

At the moment I feel a little foolish, When I started this blog I prepared about 12 deer back straps and four leg tendons. But I have really been fastinated with the use of sinew and have used all of it. Tied a couple trade points, wrapped some bamboo arrows used some on the last layer of my first horn bow.  And then there was my thoughts on what would a molli would look like if it was made with a horn belly and sinew backing; I guess somwthing like this.
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with one layer of sinew
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So it looks like I will be prepping some more sinew.

[scars]

I did have enough sinew to reinforce the grip at the fishtail splice and to run a small cord of sinew centered on the limb from the kasan to the kasan eye.

 

and kasan area

 

Long sigh,

Time to prep some sinew.

[goobersan]

keep it up Scars. one heck of a build !!

[scars]

Thanks goobersan,

A lot of things have been happening. I prepared some more sinew, that's ready to go. I got impatient with my little test horn bow and started to work on it more. The knowledge I gain from that made me think that the horn and core thickness was going to make this bow about 80# to 100# if I kept the ratios at 1:1:1. In the sal or active section of the limb I decided that I needed to thin both horn and core by about fifty percent which hopefully will give me around 50# to 55# bow. So the core and  horn thickness is 1/4". On farther research I found out from youtube that that is what Jeffrey Schmidt estimates his horn bows thickness.  Since then while I was reading at ATARN one of the builds I have been following had a limb failure. He suspects that the problem area was cause by sinew thickness moving the wood core out of the neutral plane. So I figured I needed to find out more about the neutral plane. That lead me back to the article and testing by Dan Perry on reflex using foam rubber. Anyways I'm ready to start the sinew process, The core has been resized to a nice glossy coat, the tips will be tied three inches closer together and the first layer of sinew will go on tomorrow.