the wood for the hornbow is Betula costata Trautv, we are call it maple-birch, also the elm ,mulberry i can easy buy it ,
the Betula costata Trautv i am try use it do some test , the thickness 0.2-0.3mm can be best shoot, fast and stiff and it can bend more,
the mulberry for the hornbow core and a wood bow so easy, my member has made more mulberry wood bow, but i am waiting choose the best wood
the horn form china sichuan province, it is cheap and looks good quality
the glue i used carp bladders gule and sinew glue, i can make these glue but sure can not do the best 8)
it still many challenge to me , but luckly , all the material got very cheap , the best material is a few, so, it must got a way use some one cheap and not so best material make a bow,
jiao
the wood has dry about 60 days, i am split it in cool winer, a fast split i do, when the wood has a slit , insert a wedging block , hold the wood attack down to the land surface( it like the stone hard), the wood will fast split to two block, i am try not insert a wedging block , only has a slit it can split fast also
i am not see the tradition bowyer's Bibliology ,can i sure it is my method?
i get the revelation from my member he was a carpenter but he not know this way :?:
from the split result, if the wood fiber turn sinuous and abrupt , or the skin of tree convex-concave , there are a nodal(疤节) inside the wood,
unfortunately, this wood is not straight, it is twisty from each side looks,it is a big trouble......
nordbogen
Did you take the correct dimension? You wrote 0,2- 0,3mm which means 2 or 3 hudredths of a milimeter!!! I think you mean 0,2 or 0,3 cm- 2- 3 mm.
Romain
You wrote 0,2- 0,3mm which means 2 or 3 hudredths of a milimeter!!!
2 or 3 tenths in fact :wink:
nordbogen
Sorry, sure! But even too less.
jiao
:D
hai , i am dejected members pay more attention to a apparent wrong wrote only, has not other topic can discuss?
