mongolian ?

Always nice to see that a bow has worked. Can you tell details like woods, thickness of horn thickness of sinew, thickness of core without sinew.

How long it the draw in the picture and the meant draw length. It looks kind of short, but since there are not anything to compare with.

The 13-16 th century mongolian bow, more looking like this

http://magyartortenelmiijasz.hu/verseny ... ij_002.jpg

some more info we collect here

http://magyartortenelmiijasz.hu/verseny ... j_es_nyil/

4 mm horn 5 mm wood 2 mm sinew, maple , 45 mm limb width

Lukas what is the overal length ? You give the NTN. Just curious. Your core and horn thickness is very close to my planned ones. Mine will be a bit longer, maybe I will need to lighten it up some more, my core right now is just a tiny bit over 5mm thick.

The early Magyar bow pictured is beautiful.

As said, its great to see a bow that has worked !

To date the dimensions given for the pictured bow is the most detailed that I have yet found, all in one place. Thanks Zoltan.

My cores in process are all very close to this, picking a little information here and there where I could find it.

The biggest deviation from this is modern bows I see being used in the Nadaam festival , several videos on youtube which seem to be quite wide bows, but in the overal sizes described otherwise.

I would love to see more of such well discribed old bows, also of the Manchu styles.

Than take look for Peter Dekker honpage or facebook from machu archery.

More details in the Steppen Krieger book from early mongol bows. Some of tham discovered in the book.

On our honpage ( linked before) are just overall parameters, not exact details.

Thanks Zoltan

I am on Peters facebook group, also a couple of others, and have just found out about a Mongolian Archery Facebook group . So there are some groups out there.

Its a slow process gathering information but its happening. This group here is a real wealth of information, and contacts.

Meanwhile I am taking it slow with my projects, they will be, right now I have the core materials, gathering the horn and sinew, sinew I do have much of but getting more. Making siyahs etc. Its coming along, thanks to you and many others.

Adams book has been invaluable on many things, it all adds up.

Life is good. :D