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Woho! The angular bow turned out nicely! I have only given it two weeks drying time, but when I strung and drew it to 28 inches today, it only lost 2 inches of reflex - even just after taking the string off.
It is however only about 40 pounds at 28 inches and it is weighing 325 grammes, so I bet it is not stressed at all. It even lived through reversing itself once while tillering it. The tiller is still a bit uneven on full draw, but I will still do some more work on it.
It's dimensions are generally following some of the original bows, although I hope to make a more acurate version later - and also finish my first attempt, which will be a lot (!) heavier.
Now I am wondering what kind of finish I will give it. Birch bark would be very nice, but I seem to be struggeling with getting the glass-smooth surface without being in agony from sanding away so much sinew...
Hehe, I just could not hold myself anymore and had to start bending this bastard![]()
My goal with this bow is to have a shootable and hopefully durable "crab" bow, so I am not so concerned about how much string follow it will gain. Over time it will probably land at about the same string follow in any case.
Soo...I put some tepeliks on it tonight, after some three-four weeks of drying. It now weighs 517 grammes, and seemed to have stabilized there.
It's got fairly large limbs, so I was quite surprised to find that it was very flexible. Parts of that is surely because of the rather short curing time, hehe, but the small amount of horn is probably also contributing to this. No doubt it will be of fairly high draw weight in any case though.
Before I was putting the tepeliks on it, the tips were about 10cm apart. After four hours tied to the tepeliks it opened up quite considerably, which I am fairly happy with. It seems to bend in the right places too, so unless some bad adhesion between the sinew layers will cause trouble, I think it will be a shooting bow in a few weeks.
I am however not sure what I think about the sinew on the belly, because it crazed a little in the bending parts, which I suspect will give me some trouble when putting a finish on it. Any advice? I was thinking of simply putting on shellac with some red pigment in it (and maybe paint some flowers on it, like the original).