Turning water buffalo horn Videos

+steve67 It's a none hardening clay. It's a Plasticine clay... called J-Mac. It can't be hardened or fired... I cast into bronze

+Naga Prasad Hello sir.. thank you for your kind comment and your question.Click this link to see separate reviews of each of my 8 Instructional DVDs as well as instructions on how to make your purchase or purchases of his DVDs.//adayinthelifeofalemon.blogspot.com/2015/06/all-my-instructional-dvds-available.htmlIf you look at the top of the right hand column you'll see where you can purchase the DVD or DVDs. If you have any Problems just message me on my channel and i'll see what I can do to help. Mailing costs are the same everywhere in the world.

+thisgirlshair I sent you a PM on your Channel..

+David Lemon I can't believe that the second film in the link is one that my companions and I ducked into for a few minutes on our trip to the N. Visitor center at Temple Square in Salt Lake City. I just got back from that Utah trip. I was wanting to find out what film it was (as we went in the middle of it and then had to leave). What a coincidence. Thank you! I will check out both films. I would also like to take a trip to Nauvoo! Sounds like your childhood sundays were awesome. Like I said above, I think there are wonderful things about the Mormon experience. I feel drawn to investigate it further. And anything that draws us nearer to God can be counted good for that. But I am saddened that the church hierarchy is practicing the belief that God talks to them first and other Mormons second, and that if the messages God sends to individuals does not match the understandings held by the hierarchy then those messages received by the individual are not from God. I think that is dangerous practice. Good to talk to a historical friend/descendant from Nauvoo! Again thank you for the films!! And success with your wonderful art! I'll have to keep checking back for new work.

+thisgirlshair Here are a couple of movies you might want to watch..This is one on Joseph Smith and the Restoration... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xVw6PsSinI  He was born the year Lewis and Clark were starting they're Corp of Discovery.. This is one that shows the journey to the Salt Lake Valley.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogZLZhnSNOA

+thisgirlshair Got your email.. thank you for connecting.. I'm not practicing either.. But I still have a deep faith in the church. As a kid back in the 50s we would travel from Des Moines Iowa to Nauvoo across the Mississippi River to go to church on Sundays.. The church was actually the Visitor's Center on near the Ruins of the Nauvoo Temple that was destroyed... I remember walking around there looking at parts of the old temple poking up out of the earth.. Never forget that..

+David Lemon Wow that's an interesting story! I just got back from a trip to study my family roots and turns out one of my ancestors helped build the Nauvoo Temple and was run out of Illinois too. So your ancestor and mine probably knew each other! Crazy small world! Today I'm not a practicing Mormon. I consider myself a modern spiritual pioneer. But I am researching what would make folks give up everything (including their religion, Methodist) and travel across the wild like that. Spiritual quests are one of the reasons why we're here on earth I suppose. The room I need for that questing is why the Mormon church leadership and their unchecked power is not for me. Other things are very beautiful about the religion though.  Also, funny enough I traveled back to live in the state that that ancestor who traveled to Nauvoo and then the Salt Lake Valley was born in. And I had no knowledge of this ancestor when I moved to this state (MA) and we have no modern family connections here. Again quite a "coincidence."Nice talking to you "historical family friend"; good luck with your work!!! I'll email my ancestors name in case you've heard of him.

+thisgirlshair Thank you for your experience when you watched my video. I don't often get a story in words.. I feel them more... But I was reminded of my own Pioneer family.. I've read and seen in movies the hardships they all went through.. the days of dust and heat.. Sometimes supplies get low.. and water is parsed out in a single cup a day.. I used to live within just a few miles of a spot at Truckee California where people caught in a winter storm and spent the winter with no game or food and what they resorted to doing to survive on Donner's Pass that whole winter was horrifying. The cause of their delay and the wearing out of their horses pulling their wagons was a pass coming into the Salt Lake Valley. Instead of going around this one cliff, they lowered each wagon down from the top of the cliff.. using their animals to lower each wagon.. it took strength out of their horses and oxen that the animals needed to get to warmer California..My great great Grandfather Alfred Harper came through that same canyon a year later, and they just cut a trail around that same rock to enter the Salt Lake Valley. One mistake and it cost so many lives.We can't imagine the hardships of losing your whole family and having to bury them on the trail. When my GG Grand Dad and the Mormon Pioneers crossed Iowa, after being driven out of Nauvoo Illinois.. by a mob.. they spend weeks traveling in winter through the mud of Iowa.. cold and ill equipet many died.I guess all that came to me as I sculpted this young lady.. sorry, didn't mean to write a novel.. lolOne man, a poet in that first pioneer group, as he crossed Iowa, with my ancestor, in 1846, sat down in one of the hundreds of camps, and wrote a poem that eventually was put into music.. Here is that song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8746BG7yy90

Soon... lol

+David LemonThank you so much for the kind invite, if I could I would, but for now it is too expensive for me to make that journey, but whenever I hit the jackpot make sure that the coffee is hot. Yes, Holland is very flat, we do have a few hills but that's about it, nothing near to a real mountain.

+insAneTunA Well you need to come visit.. the door mat is out.. Netherlands is pretty flat?

I live in the Netherlands and I have never seen real mountains in my life, and each time I see those Montana mountains I am amazed by the beauty of it.

+David LemonOh yeah, they taste sooo much better when they are freshly picked.

I love fresh Strawberries.. I remember as a kid.. picking them and eating them off the vine.. oh loved it

+Jack Tanner I haven't tried it Jack but I don't see why not.

ok thanks

No mate, I'm afraid I don't have any experience of those early bows. My guess would be that they were shorter and thinner in depth but other than that I have no idea.

I believe poplar and aspen are the same thing, at least from what I can tell from google. European aspen is a type of poplar maybe? I've recently started making my own arrows out of european shaking aspen planks which have been dried for some years, they seem to come out damn strong. I've tried to snap a few and it takes quite some force, I wonder this must be why they choose aspen in medieval times? The arrows found on the mary rose were made of aspen mostly right? 

I have used poplar, ash, birch, pine and cedar but never tried aspen. I see no reason why it wouldn't be fine though.

Hi Joe,The reason that the horn is oriented in this fashion is to reduce the likelihood of splitting the arrow on the loose.  As the arrow is fired it must bend around the bow to retain a straight trajectory to target, a phenomenon known as "the archers paradox".  If the horn was oriented across the grain as you suggested, when the arrow flexed around the bow there is a greater chance of the shaft snapping at a grain run-out.  With the horn oriented parallel with the grain as Nick does in the video the grain lines are perpendicular to  the axis of bending creating less chance of splitting.As for strength, it is the shear strength of the larger glue bond on the flat surface of horn that provides strength to the nock, rather than the bearing strength at the end of the horn pushing against the timber shaft.Hope that helps.

Hello Joe. I shoot these arrows from bows ranging from 100 - 130lbs. I understand your point regarding the orientation of the horn to the grain. Unfortunately I have no scientific answer for you. This is the way I was taught and I believe the Mary Rose arrows had a similar orientation. I have never had a horn insert push deeper into the wood I must say.