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Offline tibor

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plains antler bow Hidatsa
« on: August 05, 2021, 04:10:43 am »
plains antler bow Hidatsa 40 inch long 45 # @ 23 "made of deer antlers and deer sinew

Offline tibor

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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2021, 04:12:06 am »
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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2021, 04:13:25 am »
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Offline BowEd

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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2021, 08:23:53 am »
Sweeet.Some nice character to those limbs.Nice touch with the beadwork also.That was a pretty good sized deer.Sinew or rawhide string???I see your into brain tanning too.
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Offline Parnell

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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #4 on: August 05, 2021, 02:40:02 pm »
Fascinating, really good looking bow!  I think I recall seeing that example in the Encyclopedia of Native American bows?  Very well done.
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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #5 on: August 06, 2021, 02:50:47 am »
Pretty cool bow :) Nicely made and decorated.
Do you plan on making a wooden cored hornbow some time?

Offline Greg Hertel

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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2021, 08:27:03 pm »
Really nice!

Offline boomhowzer

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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #7 on: August 19, 2021, 10:29:33 pm »
How did you splice the deer antlers together?
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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #8 on: August 20, 2021, 02:37:55 am »
They are normally done with a simple lap splice and sometimes with a rivet to prevent slippage when gluing.

Offline WhistlingBadger

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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #9 on: August 20, 2021, 12:50:24 pm »
Really great looking bow.  How does it shoot?
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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #10 on: August 21, 2021, 10:03:53 am »
Really cool recreation. Love everything about it!
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Offline boomhowzer

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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #11 on: August 21, 2021, 01:20:02 pm »
The antlers must have been straightened somehow and scraped or sanded flat? Is there a good book or other resource on antler bows. This thing is beautiful and I am so curious about how to make one.
Bellaire, MI

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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #12 on: August 24, 2021, 03:07:21 pm »
Sweeet.Some nice character to those limbs.Nice touch with the beadwork also.That was a pretty good sized deer.Sinew or rawhide string???I see your into brain tanning too.
thank you, bowstring is a Dacron b50 ... yes, sometimes I do brain tanning

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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #13 on: August 24, 2021, 03:08:43 pm »
Fascinating, really good looking bow!  I think I recall seeing that example in the Encyclopedia of Native American bows?  Very well done.
Thank you, I saw a similar bow in the British Museum

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Re: plains antler bow Hidatsa
« Reply #14 on: August 24, 2021, 03:11:06 pm »
Pretty cool bow :) Nicely made and decorated.
Do you plan on making a wooden cored hornbow some time?
thank you, i don't plan to do bow horn - wood - sinew, i'm most interested in native american bow and horn bow and you were just horn and sinew