Hello, I’m trying to make my first turkish composite bow but I really have problem to find long enough piece of maple. Can I use V splice joint in the kassan eye section ? I know that there is a little bend at full draw. Do you think that glue joint in that area would work ?
Hi. I would recommend trying to find long enough piece to have sal+ kasan eye from one piece. You would need only 35cm piece for this.
I don’t have experience splicing the core at kasan eye. It might work too.
You want the sal and the kasan eye as all one piece. Splice above or below that; but not at the eye.
I think it’s better to avoid any splice on kassan-eye, because that part have some flex toward full-draw, maybe you can splice at half-section of the kassan or base of the siyah which is static…
but I believe the traditional method for Ottoman is 3pieces construction, so it’s might better done that way whenever possible… cmiiw
Finally after one month of searching I found maple for at least 5 piece core. And I live almost in the forest 
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Looks like a good start! Good luck.
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Steam bending was successfull. But next time, I should use longer piece for kasan/tip bend, at least 30cm, for easier bending. Of course my hands totally forget how to use clamps, when I was in hurry
What are measurements to build the forms?wjere do you get patterns?
Welcome to the forum! I believe all forms are pretty much custom made by the bowyer.
I recommend to draw out the bow you want to build, then start tracing the inner circle to which use as the surface for forms. Forms need to be a little bit smaller than what you think. Bending some pieces over the form and then measuring would do for a quick test. There is a lot of fine tuning that goes into finding perfect form…!! Good luck.
I just traced the shape from a photo on my PC screen. Zoomed in until one limb was 22 inches, then traced it to paper right off the monitor.