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Title: 40" sinew backed, snake skin covered hazel
Post by: maatus on July 30, 2016, 05:59:14 am

My newest sinew backed bow made from european hazel (corylus avellana). Some of the reflex was made during drying the stave and the rest of it with perry-glueing the sinews. I used approx. 50 grams of (ostrich leg) sinew and glued them with gelatine powder and then covered with rat snake skin which is also glued with gelatine. I did order a dark skin with white/light pattern but what I got was a vice versa, heh. Sinew wraps at limbs and tips.

101cm ntn, 35mm wide, has 7cm of reflex, pulls somewhere around 35-40#@20", smooth to draw and shoots nicely

Just to say, the tiller is now afterwards a little bit fixed at the mid limbs

Title: Re: 40" sinew backed, snake skin covered hazel
Post by: maatus on July 30, 2016, 06:00:05 am

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Title: Re: 40" sinew backed, snake skin covered hazel
Post by: Stick Bender on July 30, 2016, 06:06:53 am

Very nice bow love the skins  !

Title: Re: 40" sinew backed, snake skin covered hazel
Post by: ---GUTSHOT---> on July 30, 2016, 06:57:14 am

I've never seen a rat snake that color. Pretty cool makes a nice snow camo

Title: Re: 40" sinew backed, snake skin covered hazel
Post by: osage outlaw on July 30, 2016, 07:02:05 am

That's a great looking little bow.  Nice arctic rat snake skins

Title: Re: 40" sinew backed, snake skin covered hazel
Post by: BowEd on July 30, 2016, 08:57:14 am

Nice spry looking stick.Very good tiller.I've got some hazel nut bush wood drying here too.Highly crowned piece.I might need to decrown and sinew mine too.

Title: Re: 40" sinew backed, snake skin covered hazel
Post by: penderbender on July 30, 2016, 10:13:44 am

That's an awesome looking shooter there. I love those skins too! Nice bend man. Cheers- Brendan

Title: Re: 40" sinew backed, snake skin covered hazel
Post by: DesertDisciple on July 30, 2016, 10:25:09 am

Awesome! Really love that unbraced profile.

Title: Re: 40" sinew backed, snake skin covered hazel
Post by: DuBois on July 30, 2016, 11:12:59 am

Very neat little bow!
Really pulls into a nice bend.

Title: Re: 40" sinew backed, snake skin covered hazel
Post by: Aaron H on July 30, 2016, 11:29:03 am

Great work

Title: Re: 40" sinew backed, snake skin covered hazel
Post by: maatus on July 30, 2016, 12:36:52 pm

Thank you!

Beadman - hazel is good at tension and works even if crowned. The problem is the compression strenght as it tends to chrysal easily and therefore the belly should be flat and deeply heat-treated. I sinewed this one to have better unbraced profile and to reduce the stress on belly side (perry-glueing).

Title: Re: 40" sinew backed, snake skin covered hazel
Post by: SLIMBOB on July 30, 2016, 05:59:12 pm

Very nice!

Title: Re: 40" sinew backed, snake skin covered hazel
Post by: bradsmith2010 on July 30, 2016, 06:02:50 pm

very nice congrats on that one, I love the short sinew bows,,they do shoot better than most would expect

Title: Re: 40" sinew backed, snake skin covered hazel
Post by: simson on July 31, 2016, 01:22:16 am

I have never seen a sinewed hazel and skins like this.
Also never seen a hazel that short. Hazel is o.k. for longer designs in my eyes, for bows that short I would definetely use better wood.

But anyway your bow is successful, nicely executed and very unique!
Congrats!