Kaya Korean ?

daryush · Post by **daryush** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 7:01 pm

That grip looks funny!

Do the string bridges change its performance at all? I bet they'd add a bit of speed. Although they look a little wide ...

Has the unstringing or sideways pulling damaged the bow at all?

Orda Khan · Post by **Orda Khan** » Sun Oct 17, 2010 9:07 pm

Well I called at my mate's today and picked up the shafts, I'm very pleased with them. I would say they are similar in quality to the Tiger shafts. Node placement could be better but I'm sure they will make very nice functional arrows. These are for field courses afterall.

Jack,
I found the grip a bit thin so I built it up with suede binding, that grip looks just the answer. I can imagine that feels great to hold.

WarBow · Post by **WarBow** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 12:23 am

Thank you so much for the help from fellow ATARN members!!!

Orda Khan · Post by **Orda Khan** » Mon Oct 18, 2010 6:48 pm

Don't forget to give us your thoughts when the bow arrives.

Thomas Duvernay · Post by **Thomas Duvernay** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 12:58 am

jack farrell wrote:An old style Korean grip was added. Have never liked the rough rubber grip which comes on these bows. This is authentic.

What the horn bowyers usually do is buy material used to make business suits, slice off a few centimeters' wide strip and then fray it. It works well. Another old-style (well, at least in the past twenty years or so) is to serve dish scouring pads to the handle core.

Ken · Post by **Ken** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 5:03 pm

Just in case I'm thinking about the wrong bow - is the Kaya bow being written about here the one being sold by Quicks in UK for only ?125?

http://www.quicksarchery.co.uk/superbas ... an+KTB+Bow

If so it sounds a great starting point for a beginner?

jchocz · Post by **jchocz** » Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:20 pm

Ken wrote:Just in case I'm thinking about the wrong bow - is the Kaya bow being written about here the one being sold by Quicks in UK for only ?125?

I have several bows Korean type (Hwarang 45lb and 70lb, 50lb and 55lb Kaya). They are comparable and very good. Hwarang is closer to the original Korean HornBows. Kaya but also shoots very well.

For that price it's a great bow.

WarBow · Post by **WarBow** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 5:27 am

I have been pulling the 50# Kaya a lot lately. It gets very stiff and heavy at 29" or more. The draw weight seems to shoot upward after 29". Therefore, more weight training is required to pull it past 31". I hope this thing can take 34" draw length.

Orda Khan wrote:Don't forget to give us your thoughts when the bow arrives.

Orda Khan · Post by **Orda Khan** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 10:32 am

Ken,
Yes it's the same bow, great performance for the price.

WarBow,
It sounds like a similar experience that others have mentioned, I had the same feeling with my Hwarang at first. Whether this was because I was used to drawing around 29" and muscle memory I'm not sure.

cristian_iepure · Post by **cristian_iepure** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 1:05 pm

This kind of Korean bows can be drawn to 34" having no problem

http://www.goongdo.com/product/sub01.htm

this can be seen also in this youtube movie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fOUhtsO ... re=related

daryush · Post by **daryush** » Mon Nov 29, 2010 1:59 pm

Good style, Cristian!

Are those bows on the site for sale? They have a nice C shaped one. Are they variants of the Hwarang bow or made by a different bowyer?

cristian_iepure · Post by **cristian_iepure** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 2:48 am

this kind of bows are not made by Songmugung (Do Min Park) but by the other bowyer - Yeonmugung (also called Park).

The name of the model shown is MyeongPoom 명품, that means masterpiece. The C-shaped bow ins not in production anymore, I guess that the daring shape lead to limb twists or even delaminations, I repeat, it's just a guess.

Orda Khan · Post by **Orda Khan** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 11:58 am

Very interesting, Cristian. Do you know the differences between these two models (if any) and how performance compares?
It's a shame the site does not have translation, the bows are stunning.

cristian_iepure · Post by **cristian_iepure** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 12:55 pm

My first two korean bows were made by Songmugung. They feel very smooth to draw, and also smooth to shoot, because of their bamboo core. this year at WTAF I bought the bow made by Yeonmugung, listening to Ginni's advice. This bow it's 55lbs but it feels like 60-62, it can be drawn to 34" or even 35"(it's the long standard version of this model), shoots faster than my old bow, and even it is not so smooth like the others, it shoots more precisely and seems to be more forgiving than the others (the brace height is larger). The core of this bow is made of sycamore.

hcspng · Post by **hcspng** » Tue Nov 30, 2010 3:01 pm

In a Farsi text i've read that here build their bow from Chenar(Sycamore or Plane tree).

Kaya Korean ?

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