Hello guys I love to be in that comunity. I will participate more now I have the app on my phone. I have been working in mongolian bows the past few years. Now with succés, but stuck in what Adam Karpowicz, our goodfather, calls the real art in hornbow making. The tiller.
I have recived good advertisements on hornbowyers group but still having some doubts.
My opening bow process is about tepeliks. After an our or so I brace the bow on the pegboard. And then an unbalance happens. One limb bends more than the other. I correct over the night with education and the simmetry appears. But when I remove the string, let the bow recover the same happens again. I scarped about 0,5mm of horn on the stronguer limb. I am affraid to remove more horn and then no chance to get back and ruin the bow. I didn’t apply heat in any stage. Just gently bending the bow slowly. I am quite happy because any crack noise came from the bow any time.
Some updates. As Jiří from Tengri bows suggested, by keeping a tepelik on the stronguer sal the bow can be educated.
I tryed and found some results but not yet the simetry.
I hope this can benefit someone. Just keep posting my experiments.
I still doubting about scarping horn
A good amount of improvement gotten.Lots of usage and brace time to settle this bow in will help.
I wonder though that after resting for some time unbraced that the stronger limb might return and the process will have to be done again to settle in.
Its definitely looking better. The tepelik method might work too but its not something i would use.
I would just study the bend and sand slightly the other limb to resemble other. Between sanding, apply pressure to the strong limb and bend it as much as you dare. Do this back and fourth until you have a balance.
Sometimes when tillering the hornbows, its easy to get the limbs bend in wrong places of sal. In other words one limb bends near grip, one further from grip. Best would be if you could get the apex of bend happen in same length away from the grip. This might be hard at first, because unskilled eye wont even notice the difference!
And here the next bow with the same problem. I wish I had combined the horn strips different, maybe the bows would have been more simmetrical
Now I realise I did a bit too long sihas. Next cores have closer measurents to Tsagaam Chaad
It looks good! I assume you are not a expert bowyer yet, so just a capable bow for shooting is major success.
Even though the limbs dont bend the same area, it will still shoot just fine.
This difference might be down to small difference in dimensions more than anything.
Measure from the handle of the bow in 5cm increments, mark the belly and then compare thickness between limbs. You will first of all find if the limbs truly are same length, but most likely you will find a difference of thickness next to the grip.
Hi thanks a lot. No I am not expert, learning all the time. One limb is -0,75 mm thicknes less than the other due to the horn scarping.
Is possible there is little differences between the limb lenghts. I will check it.
