Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Horn Bows => Topic started by: loefflerchuck on February 03, 2015, 12:07:32 am
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This bow has the most black in the horns of any I have made so far. I think they are desert bighorn but cannot be sure. From what I have seen desert bighorns are a little darker than Rocky mt. The bow started out a couple inches longer and had a lap splice with handle risers on back and belly glued and held with 6 coper rivets. It was finished over a year ago and became a tough lesson about rivets in a handle section not thick enough. After spending well over 50 hours to that point on the bow I was working with the tiller and bringing it to full draw for about the 100th time and it broke clean across the top of the handle at 2 side by side rivets. The pieces sat for a while. I pulled the sinew off and eventually started making it into a new bow. Since one limb was now shorter I used the same tung groove splice I used on my last one so I could get the longest bow for what was left. This bow also has the risers on the back and belly, but no rivets, just good glue.
The new bow is 35" Backed with 8 layers of sinew applied in 3 sessions. It has a draw of about 58# @ 19.5". I often leave these bows strung for a week or so at a time and they are still fast shooters. The reflex comes back after being unstrung a couple days. The new owner lived in Montana among the Blackfoot and wanted it finished in that style. The Blackfoot had many hornbows at one time but had no record of making them. It was said they obtained them from the tribes to the west as well as fine cedar bows. The arrows are dogwood with iron barrel hoop points and the string is 3 ply sinew.
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full draw
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Ya man, another super impressive horn bow. You are a true master of this style
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WOW! Looks like a Pocket Rocket of energy, well done, Sir
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Wow
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Looks like it was a tougher project. Very well done.
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Nobody else out there makes horn bows quite like you do Chuck. Gorgeous
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great bow,, nice tiller
the black in the horns really sets the bow off
whats your absolute shortest bow you've made and max draw on one of these little beauties?
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Another stunning piece of work sir
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great great bow
could you please add some more pictures of the details?
I'd love to see pictures of the knocks in particular
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Sorry Glis but I sent this bow off to Montana a couple weeks ago. The nocks are just sinew formed into hooks that extend past the horn. Same as some old hornbows and the Miwok bows of the Sierras.
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Those bows are mind boggling sir.. 8)
rich
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Absolutely mindblowing! :D
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Impressive stuff :)
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Man, that whole set up is killer. Love every part of it. Minus the weird high nocking point. haha ::)
Those arrows look like they're about the same length as the draw, any problems with the spine being crazy high? I just made a little 47" stiff handled osage bow that draws 20" and I was thinking I should make the arrows the exact length of the short draw so I don't have to worry about it getting overdrawn but wondered about how stiff that will make them.
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Thats a masterpiece
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Man that is slick! That would be just the ticket for a Buffalo hunt, on horse back!
Wayne
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Bowmo, criticism is hard to come by on this site. It is nice and refreshing for a change. The reason for the high nocks is I am using every last mm of horn to make this bow and don't want to waste any. The nocks are just sinew molded up past the end of the horn. As far as too much spine in short bows- not a problem. The goal is to get the arrows as light as possible for optimal speed and flight from these little bows.
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I actually meant where the arrow is nocked on the string, it's rather high up and far from center. Is that typical in horn bows?
Again tho, I love your work.
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Oh. I gotcha. There are a very few asymmetrical old bows around for a closer to center shot. I made 2 like this again because one horn was longer than the other and I didn't want to waste any. They shoot well but tiller is harder and they always look off with the longer upper limb.