Two horny bellies...ready to re-tiller

The horn works great with a scraper.  Nice fine shavings.    I alternate scraper with sanding block.  
If your dog is hanging around, the shavings are a nice treat.  
The puke on the living room rug later isn't.    You've been warned.

The horn is blended into the belly.   This is the start of the fun part.....    You can run the horn to the tip of the bow, or not.    The horn on the last 4-6" is not doing anything but adding weight, IMO.

You'll need to re-tiller the bow, but if it was properly tillered to start with it's not much of a chore.  

All the pics I have...thanks for taking the time to look.


This is a pic of a belly from a few years ago.  The horn cleans up and finishes nicely.  

John,this is probably a stupid question,but is the bow tillered the same way,from the belly,shave the horn down.Or is it tillered from the sides?....Jim.

Outstanding pictorial John, I knew there was a little work to this but had no idea    Certainly worth the labor, thanks bud.

Nice tute John.  Thanks for posting.

I knew that boy would shake the cobwebs off his camera! :D

Very nice John! And John,I have a dog....It's an outside dog!        :D

Very nice work.  Really looking forward to pics of the finished bows!

I'll second the tutorials idea.  Also am looking forward to finished pics.

Clint

All I can say is : WOW!!!  

This is the kind of thread I like. Nice looking bow  

Mike,come to mojam, and you can see those bows first hand!(and alot of others)  

Great thread!
Excellent pictures!
More important, at least for me, its motivates.  I'm headed for ebay in search of some horns.  

Walt Francis

Really neat tutorial. Can't wait to see the finished bow.

Really cool! Thanks for posting this.I have always wondered how in the heck they get those horns flat like that.  
btw.. you can send me that bow when you get tired of it.   :D

Well look what the cat drug in:)  Guys John sure nows his stuff on these horn bellied bows and bamboo bellied bows and osage bellied bows and bloodwood bows and... the list goes on as you get my point:)  He's a true inspiration for guys that want to learn something other than selfbows, and for someone from Iowa he's pretty nice:) I'm lucky to own one of his horn bellied bows and believe me they look way better in person than pic's can show. Do you think I'll use it for a pattern on my next horn bow:) All I can say is thanks John for pushing the envelope and opening eyes to new and great ideas in bowcrafting.

Joe Don

that is nice work cant wait to see the bow that they are going on  

Wow, that is just awesome work.  Thanks for sharing...            


David

Very illuminating, thanks for sharing, John!

I had no Idea how all that horn thing worked,

thanks for sharing.

I think I'll stick to selfbows  :rolleyes:  

  Manny