Ottoman flight bow's #1 & #2

JNystrom · Post by **JNystrom** » Tue Aug 28, 2018 10:53 am

Now i ditched the string bridges, lightened the kasans from mid part into tips and made the tips triangle shape. I roughened the sinew back and today i will glue and put modest sinew binding under the notches.
With this filing and scraping, the bow lost 28 grams of weight from its tip parts. Now it weights 350g and its still a bit moist from the competition. So it will be interesting when i get to shoot the bow again, no more shots under 300m...

mikekeswick · Post by **mikekeswick** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 6:36 am

30 grams lost from the tips will help things along nicely

Good luck and let us know how it shoots now.

JNystrom · Post by **JNystrom** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:44 pm

It shot some decent 330 meters with 26" arrow, 270grains. Humidity is too high now to shoot, i'll get better distance next summer then. I tried some 28" arrows pulled to 26,5-27", but they werent correct spine/weight i guess since they didn't fly better than 26" arrows drawn to pile.
On the pictures i have just some leather glove i could find to protect bow arm from the parchment fletchings.
String is 12 strand dacron.

JNystrom · Post by **JNystrom** » Mon Sep 17, 2018 4:46 pm

Here is couple of more:

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