Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: bubbles on May 31, 2013, 12:03:14 am
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Hey there, I was searching for sinew when it occurred to try and search for cow tendon, since there would probably a lot of that around, more than deer sinew anyway. Its used for dog treats and in some Asian dishes. Anyone sinewed a bow with cow sinew? Are they shorter or longer than deer? Or used the dog treats? Some of them just look like full dried leg sinews. Next time I'm at the pet store I'm going to find some and try it, but just wondering if anyone had any experience already.
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Make sure you don't get the bully sticks ;D ;D
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Make sure you don't get the bully sticks ;D ;D
Yeah, OO found out you gotta chew them a long time to soften 'em up. ???
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Nope. Never chewed any beef pizzle
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Haha, thanks guys. :).
I did a search and cow sinew seems to work fine for sinewing purposes, albeit a little greasy. Nothing on whether the tendon treats are any good or not. Maybe ill have to just try it out.
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I have no idea, but can't wait to hear the results.
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Ya I have used them on a couple bows, worked fine as sinew. They were a little crusty on the outside of the sinew, a tiny bit harder to beat out, but not by much. Worked fine. I suggest you degrease it all though, I didn't, but they were really greasy and I really should of. Different brands probably do different things to them, some probably cook theirs, etc. I don't know about all brands, but I bought the moo brand cow tendons. I used a couple individual achilles tendons you can buy, and I bought a couple 1 lb bags of them too for pretty cheap over the internet. It's definitely better getting them from a butcher, but it works too. The glue seemed to crack a bit when I used it, but I think I made the glue too thick. I'm thinking it's my fault, not the sinews. They bows were snappy and held (and gained over time) reflex like any other sinew backed bow, so I give em a thumbs up, :).
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Don't chizzle the pizzle yo!!
Grady
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Don't chizzle the pizzle yo!!
Grady
Fo' shizzle, dawg!
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I have a rawhide dog treat... it has a sort of hide-gluey appeariance- like dried hide glue in the core. Could this possible be beef sinew?
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Inside the rawhide bones I've found rawhide scraps and, as Osage outlaw calls them, "bully sticks" never found tendon on there, but i havnt looked through hundreds of these things, mind you.
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I find it quite good that my local pet shop has the stuff I need for bow making. Antlers, rawhide and now I realised that they also do tendons. Does anyone know how to de-grease them like TMK suggested? Thanks. SS
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I think Marc st louis said, break them down as if you were going to use them, then was them in water with dish detergent. You can just search cow sinew or beef sineand you'll get some recommendations. I realized that after I started this thread. Although I could find no mention of the dried tendon dog treats.