Dick has "horn strips for bowers"

jkekoni · Post by **jkekoni** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 11:10 am

dick.biz advertises new "horn strips for bowers"

http://www.dick.biz/dick/product/831290/detail.jsf

I do not know if this is better quality than the (crappy) plates.

Orda Khan · Post by **Orda Khan** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 4:44 pm

Their description sounds like everything Redhawk has said about horn strips. Perhaps dickbiz have listened.

Puzio · Post by **Puzio** » Fri Mar 26, 2010 5:19 pm

It looks better than the horn plates. But i would still go for Highland Horn, Martin at HH is have a good business and for me in Sweden a better price. I only buy my glue at dick.

redhawk · Post by **redhawk** » Mon Apr 12, 2010 7:02 am

Orda khan, I guess Dick has read my chapter in the "Reflexbogen- Buch".
They are hurting the copyright..............Oh, Oh!
Michael

Zoran Pavlovic · Post by **Zoran Pavlovic** » Thu May 06, 2010 1:51 pm

All i can say about dick.biz is that they are very good source for horn and horn plates for composite bows, especially for those bowmakers in Europe. I ordered watter buffalo horns couple of times few years ago and for my taste it was great. Very serious and professional company. I think i get it in 3 days or so(from Germany to Serbia).
Regards

Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Sat May 08, 2010 6:24 pm

Cool. But has any one tried the ostrich sinew?

PAZUZU · Post by **PAZUZU** » Sat May 08, 2010 8:08 pm

Zoran Pavlovic wrote:All i can say about dick.biz is that they are very good source for horn and horn plates for composite bows, especially for those bowmakers in Europe. I ordered watter buffalo horns couple of times few years ago and for my taste it was great. Very serious and professional company. I think i get it in 3 days or so(from Germany to Serbia).
Regards

I'm the opposite view. I ordered four buffalo horn plates - two of them very poor quality. there are many transverse cracks and is very fragile - like bakelite. i do not know what the quality of the horn strips DICK, but there are other good suppliers of Horn in Europe.

Reto · Post by **Reto** » Sun May 09, 2010 5:21 pm

3 days ago I got one pair from Dick biz - ordered for a trial. I had to return it - simply not useful for hornbow making. One horn was too long and flat, the other one very curly with a sharp bend. They simply did not match at all. In other words a waste of time and money. I will go back to Martin from Scotland - see http://www.highlandhorn.com/

R

Dusan · Post by **Dusan** » Sun May 09, 2010 5:43 pm

Ouch, boys. If you remember i once write about this problem. Dick has fantastic horns , but you must go to the shop and personaly selected from minimum 100-200 horns . Not post ,no internet buing. Because all this horn has very strange curvature and most is -like Reto sayd - flat.
For post buying is Highland horns best choice.

Hartung · Post by **Hartung** » Tue May 11, 2010 2:15 pm

Reto wrote:One horn was too long and flat, the other one very curly with a sharp bend. They simply did not match at all. R

Reto, did you take a pic of the horns before returning them? I?d be interested to know why a horn strip that is ?long and flat? is not suited as well as what you consider being ?flat?. Also, what do you consider being very curly with a sharp bend ?.

I payed a visit to Dick.biz today for a different reason but told them about the discussion here at ATARN. Here are two pics of the two different horn types they have: the shorter ones on the top and the longer ones below.

Anything wrong with them?

Thanks!

Zoran Pavlovic · Post by **Zoran Pavlovic** » Sun May 16, 2010 8:32 am

I found Higland horns as very good choice as Dusan suggested.But i didn't see that they sell white horn i need for some of my experiments.
Also, does anyone knows some source of long Ox horns?I found some seller from India but i have to buy 25 horns minimum:)
Did anyone had experience with Peter Cua's horn strips?
Regards,
Zoran

Reto · Post by **Reto** » Sun May 16, 2010 12:08 pm

Hartung, this is a big difference to what I got from Dick. One horn strip was very small/short, the other one long. I returned both and asked for replacements of similar length and shape.

Reto