Re: Taegeuk Horn Bow (Gakgung)
Back to the subject the thread is actually about.....
Taegeuk Horn Bow- I really love the fact that they did not cover up the truth and call it a semi horn bow as everything about it is as much a horn bow as one made a thousand years ago-only better!!!
I'm sure most of you just fell out on the floor--haha! Let me explain, things evolve plain and simple.
What happens today will be looked at has anctient history a thousand years from now, we only don't see it that way as we live in the moment.
The upgraded version of the horn bow is far superior to the old style sinew-fishbladder glue-hide glue-ect.. and the new synthetic glues actually bond and hold that bond in more extreme conditions and the replacement of sinew with bamboo or carbon cores or whatever the bowyer chooses is going to be more stable and last longer than sinew obviously.
I read a post on here somewhere I think may have been by
Ugh, someone needs to fix that quotes cutting off posts issue already. Unless we want to keep getting interesting posts cut off...
I asked the seller of a 44" (string length?) horn bow and he said it had a smooth draw to 34", while my 53" ("permieter"/contour, ~48.9" string length) Nomad is supposedly rated for safe draw of only up to 33". Which is still really good for its length compared with other bow designs..
Is the Taegeuk any longer than the average Korean horn/sinew bow with the same drawlength?
if it isn't, and if it doesn't take set like a real hornbow such that the stored energy ends up being roughly the same (well, it is still horn in the belly...), then I'll really believe you But the durability is a really good tradeoff and i'm sure it's still a great bow