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Thank you for your comment and the excellent recommendations. I will take all of them into consideration as I work on my next composite bow. I'm processing deer sinew which will give me longer sinew bundles, I'm preparing an elm or black locust bow core and have just received a 30-inch cow horn that I will apply to the belly. Hope you keep watching and thanks again for your comment.

Thanks for your comment. Sorry I didn't respond right away. Some medical issues have diverted my attention. Here in Kansas we are surrounded by good bow woods. Not only mulberry, Osage and Ash; I found a hackberry growing in a cedar thicket. Did I mention black locust and honey locust, too.

You are spot on! Mulberry is, as you may know, in the same botanical family as osage orange. Now that we are in Kansas, we are surrounded with osage orange trees or "hedge" trees as they are called here. There are some mulberries in the hedge rows at the farm as well as black locust. Now that we are getting settled in at our new home, I've got to get some bow making projects on the schedule. Thanks for your comment. Please stay in touch.

Sorry to be so late getting back on your comment. We've been getting settled in our new home in Kansas. Thank you for your comment. I have left the sapwood on elm and pecan bows that I have made, but my reason for going all the way down to the heartwood on the mulberry had as much to do with the color of the wood as anything else. I had previously made a short mulberry bow that was mainly sapwood. Working on something in bamboo right now; so please stay in touch. Thanks again for your comment.

Thank you very much for your helpful comments. The composite bow project is one of constant experimentation. As I work on each individual bow I will use different, hopefully traditional, methods of construction that I find on UA-cam, the internet and from interested commenters such as yourself. Thanks again for your suggestions they will help me eventually produce a usable bow. The object right now is to continue to learn.

@@ox-cartfarm4898 I am now building a Hungarian traditional bow. I just named it, glued a tendon. it's already drying. I dry it for 2 months because it has 3 layers of sinew

Thanks for the comment. I look forward to hearing how the bow turns out. Are you going to post a video on the bow build.

Sorry to be so late getting back. We are now settled in Kansas and can pay proper attention to our UA-cam channel. You are absolutely correct that the mentioned power tools would speed up the process, cut down on labor and additionally make each component more consistent. If I get into bow production that is certainly the option I would choose. Right now it's my intent to use hand tools and as much as possible follow the traditional techniques and materials used by bowyers of past centuries. Thanks again for your comment and please stay in touch.

Thanks for your comment. I've still got a lot to learn before I wind up with a really useable composite bow. Now that we a getting settled in our new home in Kansas, I'm going to put together the materials needed for another try. I think I know why the lower limb failed and we'll see if the next project turns out better. Thanks again.

@@ox-cartfarm4898 man that is so cool. And so cool to watch.

Thanks for watching and thanks for commenting. We're getting settled in to Kansas now and should be posting new material and following up on our comments in a timely manner. Keep watching please.

@@ox-cartfarm4898 oh most definitely man. This is awesome stuff. And after you get all settled in and everything, and start making another one let me know. I would love to share that video around.

It may be a little while yet we are still unpacking boxes and living on fast food! I will give you a heads-up as soon as we get to work on another video. Thanks again for staying in touch.

Thanks for the heads up, we'll take a look at them. Sorry to be so late in responding but we have been in the middle of our trip to Kansas.

Thanks for your comment. I did use a commercial hide glue on this bow build, but will make my own next time and try both hide and fish glue on a prototype. My main technical difficulty is my own impatience. On the next bow I will use longer and fully combed out sinew for the back. I'm also looking at buffalo horn for the belly. I put the sinew on first with the idea that it might shrink and produce a back set prior to installing the horn. Do you think that installing the horn first would still allow the sinew to reflex the bow core? Thanks again. Hope you keep tuning in.

@@ox-cartfarm4898 yessir. most horn bows were put together with pre induced reflex. you can look up Korean horn bowyers on youtube as well as a gentlemen by the name of stiliyan stefanov on youtube as well. he builds amazing horn bows and has done many types. i believe before glue up that both the core and the horn together can measure anywhere from 6mm to 8mm in thickness or more if you're looking for warbow weights. the cores are put together with fishtail or V splices.

Thanks again for your comments. I've watched a number of the videos you have described and probably will try the V notch next time around, but there are some folks, American, Eastern European, and Asian, who install the siyahs in the manner I used; surface glued with sinew or other wraps for reinforcement. Are you going to post any new content?

I am going to be posting some bows and stuff on my UA-cam. I haven’t done any videos in years so the videos I do have are old. The v notches are traditional which is why I mentioned it but either way works I imagine.

I look forward to seeing your new work. Thanks for the helpful comments.

Glad that video was of some help. Next time though I will probably use tendons picked up from a deer processor or butcher, length was an issue on the tendons I got from the Asian market.

Thanks for staying in touch with us. Next project I probably will use a band saw but will try and retain as much horn thickness as possible for added draw weight. Please stay tuned for upcoming videos.

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Vielen dank. I will try making my own fish glue and hide glue.

@@ox-cartfarm4898 yes, casein is no good as it seems to not be flexible enough for this type of application. Also, at least according to my understanding, the joint you use for the limb-siyah connection would only really work if there is re-enforcement in the form of bone, antler, or wooden plates like hungarian bows. An easier alternative would be what is called a "V-splice" . In any case, I think you put up a valiant first attempt! Please keep it coming!

Thanks for your helpful comment. I probably will try the "V-splice" next time but a number of bowyers apply the siyah as I did to the limb tip and reinforce with a wrap. I've seen it it both traditional and commercial application. The great thing is all the different techniques provide me plenty of opportunity to make lots of bows in lots of different ways! That's part of the fun.

I wound up, of course, reducing the thickness of the horn but I think that also reduced its strength in resisting compression. In the current project, I boiled the horn for a couple of hours and it was still difficult to fully flatten. I'm researching techniques used by other horn craftsmen (horn-handled cane makers for example) and if I find some special methods I'll pass them along. I'm also considering using dry heat - a heat gun - to heat and flatten the horn gradually, inch by inch. Many bowyers use cattle horn and I may try that if I can find material that doesn't cost the moon. Thanks for your comment. Let me know how your project works out.

Thanks for the encouraging words. Last video in the composite bow series coming up soon. I learned plenty of lessons during this project. hope you tune in!

Thank you. Hope you visit the other videos in this series. Really appreciate your comment. Glad a tech expert liked my primitive archery video.

Since this is a "first-of" and a very experimental and fluid build, I do not have a schematic at this time. Once the bow build is completed I will include dimensional drawings in the final video. Let's be sure at the end of the day this turns out to be a useable and durable bow. Thanks for your interest.

Thanks for your encouragement! Hope you stay tuned for the completion.

Thanks for the encouragement. Should have the horn slabs finished in time to produce that next video.

Next video will cover all the work on the oryx horn. We are committed to having that published by July 11. Hope you keep watching.

Thanks for the heads-up, we'll check out Woodprix.

@@ox-cartfarm4898 Awesome to hear that ❤️ Woodprix is full of amazing tips. It helped me a lot.

Clay hayes has some fantastic videos

Thanks everybody for your comments. We'll check out Clay Hayes' videos.

Thanks David! Been watching your Myrtle Beach video. Looks like everyone had fun.

Thanks for your comment. Sorry to be so late getting back. Working on both the horn for the belly and the mulberry core, but it may still be a week or so before bow completion. We plan an upcoming video showing progress to date.

Thanks for the kind comments. I try and use hand tools when I am making the bows or decoy carving. Don't know if I mentioned it in the video, but mulberry is in the same family as Osage orange and was a popular wood for Japanese bows. Thanks for your patience since this project has turned into a composite bow construction and is requiring a lot of work on prepping the gemsbok horn for the belly. Stay tuned for updates.

Thank you for your kind response. Thank you too for your patience on the completion of the bow project. Just finished splitting the ibex horn and will work this week on thinning that to apply to the belly of the bow. Will work on shaping the bow blank to enhance its reflex and next week will cut out siyahs (rigid limb tips), prepare the rawhide backing and, possibly, actually assemble the bow.

Thank you, Son. Any input from you will be appreciated!

Thanks a lot for your comment; very encouraging. Mulberry is a common tree here in the Southeast, but finding a suitable tree for bow making may require a bit of a search. Its related to osage orange. You might check local tree service in your area for salvage wood. Thanks again for your comment. Followup video being posted today.

Making arrows is a great idea for a future video! Thank you. Rodney has made arrows from hazel and elaeagnus. He has an article published in Primitive Archer (March 2019 page 39) magazine on elaeagnus arrows.