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Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: rainman on April 24, 2011, 09:44:06 pm

Title: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: rainman on April 24, 2011, 09:44:06 pm

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Sorry I don't know how to post the pictures to the website.  Bow is 59" nock to nock, 55lbs at 28 inches.  the bow is extremely fast and has no handshock.  Carpskin from Timo on back, tip overlays are curly maple and snakewood.   One layer of Deer sinew, Oryx horn on belly.  Horn and sinew both stop eight inches from tips. Thanks for looking.

Semper Fi,
Dan Raney

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: billy bowmaker on April 24, 2011, 11:22:35 pm

that is g'dam good work

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: ken75 on April 24, 2011, 11:30:37 pm

here its not all of them but might help
excellent work

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: sweeney3 on April 25, 2011, 12:53:08 am

My gosh!!  Neat.  I'm impressed with that horn/carp skin combo.  That is attractive.  I imagine it really spits em out too.

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: rainman on April 25, 2011, 12:55:41 am

Thanks for posting the pics Ken.

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: billy bowmaker on April 25, 2011, 12:58:48 am

how did you prep/apply the horns?

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: ErictheViking on April 25, 2011, 12:59:21 am

WOW! looks like alot of work went into that one. really nice job.

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: Pat B on April 25, 2011, 01:02:18 am

I've been thinking about a bow just like this for a couple of years now but never attempted it.
  You did a very nice job with this bow!  8)

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: rainman on April 25, 2011, 01:04:13 am

Horn was cut in half, flattened with heat the put thru a drum sander to get to about 3/16th of and inch.  The bow started as a selfbow, but was my first try at this design I missed weight by 15 pounds, so I decided to try to bring it up to weight.  One layer of sinew and the horn brought weight up 25 pounds.   Recently retillered to 55lbs.

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: rainman on April 25, 2011, 01:05:11 am

I did apply the horn with Smooth On.

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: Arrowind on April 25, 2011, 02:02:37 am

AWESOME......that pretty much sums it up.

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: medicinewheel on April 25, 2011, 04:19:25 am

Very nice!!!

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: DEllis on April 25, 2011, 04:11:53 pm

That'll do ;D Very nice, you could pike it back to 65# and send er on up here to Canada ;)
Seriously, you could have gone a bunch shorter with the horn and sinew combo, not that it is too long, but think of the possibilities.(light bulb above the head smiley needed here)
Very nice work, I love the contrast.
Darcy :)

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: zenmonkeyman on April 25, 2011, 08:11:13 pm

I'm hopeful this will make for an easy vote next time around... For a change... Thanks for that!

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: Polar Bear on April 25, 2011, 08:24:42 pm

Pretty bow.  A keeper.

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: SA on April 25, 2011, 11:10:31 pm

like that alot, tiller looks right on.

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: Timo on April 26, 2011, 09:39:15 am

Bow looks good Dan! Bring it to Mojam so I can have a closer look. ;)

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: rainman on April 26, 2011, 09:59:22 am

Will do Tim.

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: sharpend60 on April 26, 2011, 02:19:37 pm

I like everything about that bow.


Great work!

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: HoBow on April 26, 2011, 03:50:41 pm

That is a nice looking bow!

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: Josh on April 26, 2011, 05:34:31 pm

nice bow!  to post images here, just use the "image" code in photobucket and put it right into your message.  It's really easy.  Like this:

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Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: johnston on April 26, 2011, 07:10:36 pm

Beautiful work. You put that horn to good use.

Lane

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: Del the cat on April 26, 2011, 07:51:09 pm

Classy...
Del

Title: Re: sinew backed, horn belly holmegard
Post by: juniper junkie on April 27, 2011, 01:48:52 am

simply incredible, great job.