Turkish Bow (red on grey)

I always admire how your bows seem so well proportioned and tillered.

Do you not feel that you are taking some risk by not wrapping the tips? It looks scary to me, hehe.

Force-Draw curve: I used a hand held spring-scale and a graduated shaft, so it's not very accurate.
Kviljo, the tips are made of a quite dense piece of sugar maple: sometimes I use sinew bindings, but I don't like them too much; hope it doesn't break
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Nice bow Francesco!

Looks very good, congrats. I see no stacking, your bow is very effective and comfortable. Drawing looks very good but it is not easy to see.

Cem

Well done and low mass, should be pleasant to shoot.

Adam

Another beautiful bow, Francesco. The deep purple and gold are stunning.

Kviljo wrote:

Do you not feel that you are taking some risk by not wrapping the tips? It looks scary to me, hehe.

Don't you think re-inforcing the tips with spliced-in horn is enough?

Apparently it is strong enough without a wrapping, hehe, but I would not feel comfortable without a small wrapping, especially if shooting lightweight arrows. :) I don't believe the horn does much to secure the tips, although my hunch might be wrong there too 8)

Francesco, I never get enough of the pictures of your bows.

Is that arrow curved or is it a problem from the camera? I sometimes have had pictures that introduced odd effects caused by the way the image sensor was scanned.

Bede wrote:

Is that arrow curved or is it a problem from the camera? I sometimes have had pictures that introduced odd effects caused by the way the image sensor was scanned.

If you hold a straight object along the arrow in the picture, it's perfectly straight. The texture of the curtain in the back does something with the perception of straightness. Somewhat like this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File ... tlines.svg

Thanks for the tip: just think free optical illusions. However, I tried the straight edge test and the arrow was lower in the middle than at the support points so it must be my monitor. I compared the windowsill and the bottom edge of the curtains, but they came out straight. Oh well, this is no place to discuss optics.

Great bow. Very nice.

Probably I bent slightly the arrow while I was "wrestling" with the bow.
Francesco

It is always a bit nerve wracking to draw a bow in the house for a photograph. You have so many non-archery things on your mind.

"You have so many non-archery things on your mind"...Not really, I'm an obsessive kind of person :) . I was just out of shape.
Francesco