Turkish Bow
Hello people,I'm back after a long time.This time I've been quite idle so I made only thi bow.It's 45#@28" and it's 124cm long.I'made this bow for a beginner so it's quite overbuilt.Every comment is welcome!
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Another fulldraw picture (with Assisi on the background)
Alessi Francesco, this is a very nice looking bow. How does it shoot and perform? Looks like a fast shooter.
Anyway, can you take some more measurements of it? Length of handle, core, siyahs, splices, widths, thicknesses in siyahs, etc? Thanks if you can get those up.
SW
Anyway, can you take some more measurements of it? Length of handle, core, siyahs, splices, widths, thicknesses in siyahs, etc? Thanks if you can get those up.
SW
Alessi; This is a very studied looking bow, smooth, even and confident. Have you given any thought to decorating techniques? -j-
Is there a functional reason for the length of area from nock to tip?
Francesco,
it's a great looking bow for sure. I was browsing in saved pictures of your work and this bow is, with the last one I saw, the best looking.
I had missed the last picture... that's a lovely view! Are you in Bevagna or in Perugia there?
I still have the 101 dalmatians tie I owe to send you... an original decoration for sure!
Alberto
it's a great looking bow for sure. I was browsing in saved pictures of your work and this bow is, with the last one I saw, the best looking.
I had missed the last picture... that's a lovely view! Are you in Bevagna or in Perugia there?
I still have the 101 dalmatians tie I owe to send you... an original decoration for sure!
Alberto
Thank you Alberto,I'm waiting for that tie! :) I took the last picture just outside my house.
SW,the bow is 32mm wide at the fades tapering to 23mm at the base of the ears and the thickness is 11.5mm at the fades,10mm at midlimb,15mm at the base of the ears.The handle (with the fades) is 22cm long,the ears are 8cm long (from base to nock);the siyah splices are about 9cm long.The bow is smooth but it would be faster if lighter (it weighs 336gr:as I said it's overbuilt for this poundage.)
Mjuingong,the tips are just dead weight,but I like them quite long.
Thank you Jack!I am thinking about covering the sinew with thin silk fabric,just for estethic reasons...maybe it'll give a good protection once saturated with varnish.Any suggestion about the varnish and the preparation of the colors?I tried sandarac but it's too brittle.
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SW,the bow is 32mm wide at the fades tapering to 23mm at the base of the ears and the thickness is 11.5mm at the fades,10mm at midlimb,15mm at the base of the ears.The handle (with the fades) is 22cm long,the ears are 8cm long (from base to nock);the siyah splices are about 9cm long.The bow is smooth but it would be faster if lighter (it weighs 336gr:as I said it's overbuilt for this poundage.)
Mjuingong,the tips are just dead weight,but I like them quite long.
Thank you Jack!I am thinking about covering the sinew with thin silk fabric,just for estethic reasons...maybe it'll give a good protection once saturated with varnish.Any suggestion about the varnish and the preparation of the colors?I tried sandarac but it's too brittle.
Bye
Hello Francesco
congratulations for your title of bowyer of the year.I found this article on the web: http://www.turkishculture.org/weapons/archery.html It has some logical holes in it and I am not sure weather it is to be taken serious. It says
"beech was generally taken for the crore in turkish bows". so I started thinking,if beech could indeed be used for the crore.So far most of us take hard maple for this - it never even crossed my mind to try out beech.
What is your opinion on this?
congratulations for your title of bowyer of the year.I found this article on the web: http://www.turkishculture.org/weapons/archery.html It has some logical holes in it and I am not sure weather it is to be taken serious. It says
"beech was generally taken for the crore in turkish bows". so I started thinking,if beech could indeed be used for the crore.So far most of us take hard maple for this - it never even crossed my mind to try out beech.
What is your opinion on this?
Hello Adnan.Bowyer of the year?!?I didn't know that?Who gave me this title?Anyway,I think beech could be quite good for the core,since is a close grained wood.Maybe isn't very elastic.I don't know.What do you think Adam?
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I was just joking. But you deserve the title too ,anyway Alessi. good to hear from you again. Beech wood is availiable in very good quality around where
I live.The forests here are entirely beech.....So far, except in the above article I haven' heard about its use in turkish bows. I wan't to go for something authentic.Since much of this article is nonsense, I don't know if
this information can be trusted....I would like to start out building some more
bows while the other project is drying. I collected an incredible amount of fresh ox sinew which I cleaned and dried and I have some extra horn strips apart from the ones that I got from Peter Cua.I don't wan't to always rely on wood from the Americas-thats not very authentic.
I live.The forests here are entirely beech.....So far, except in the above article I haven' heard about its use in turkish bows. I wan't to go for something authentic.Since much of this article is nonsense, I don't know if
this information can be trusted....I would like to start out building some more
bows while the other project is drying. I collected an incredible amount of fresh ox sinew which I cleaned and dried and I have some extra horn strips apart from the ones that I got from Peter Cua.I don't wan't to always rely on wood from the Americas-thats not very authentic.