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Well, if the horsehair is from a climate warmer than Mongolia, then it would be thinner and probably wear out a bit faster than the usual Mongolian stuff. Cold climates give stronger horsehair and denser more close-grained maple and spruce.
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This is a VERY interesting thread! I always wondered if color made any difference at all. I thought not, because I assume the darker colors were just the same hair but dyed. Apparently I was mistaken, lol.
I'm definitely going to try to find a green-haired bow,,, to use on St. Patty's day of course! Daniel, where do you think the green-colored horses grow???
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Fiddlerman said
I can get you one Fred. For real Any of the Glasser bows except for the Basic Fiberglass bow, are available in all these colors both sticks and hair.Stick colors: red, green, blue, purple, metallic gold, metallic silver, pink, black
Hair colors: red, green, blue, purple, yellow, black, pink
The hairs are synthetic too? Or coloured real horse hairs?
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cdennyb said
good reading.
If this information gets out to the general population, there will ne all manner of bow-hair advertisting... like the study of the effect of Cold-eze zinc tablets help shorten the duration of the common cold. So.. which will it be? Mongolian? Chinese?
Thanks cdennyb. And... Fiddlerman... St. Patrick's day is coming... stock up on those green bows!@@
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Glad this topic came up.
It wasn't long ago I saw a black carbon fiber bow with black hair, and wondered what effect, if any, it might have on sound. As far as looks go, it was classy and also very cool!
And now Fiddlerman has completely ruined me with the prospect of maybe being able to have a purple one!
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Very interesting read Denny; wished the author had summarized a conclusion but my take on it was, if tensile strength is the most important characteristic to the player, the most commonly-used (Mongolian) is clearly not the best, and that there might be some support here for the old perspective that FM had identified which was, black hair offers the best playing qualities. Or did I come to incorrect conclusions?
I'm thinking about GREEN FM!
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I'm thinking that whatever is used to dye the hair could affect the physical properties of the hair. Water based food coloring, for example wouldn't be that good. I got some saddle/leather dye to do the top of an old guitar after refinishing, that is an alcohol based dye. I'm thinking that stripping the rosin and prepping the hair, then application of the dye with rubber gloves and a sponge. In such a way you could do sections at a time of the hair and maybe even have colored sections fade into each other, like a tie dye or rainbow. Now that sounds like a catchy business idea. The Fiddlerman RainBow?
Why not plain old Hair Dye? I know that my hair, after I dyed it the one and ONLY time in my life, felt more coarse every time I washed it after dying so it's possible regular hair dye would make the horse hair even more "grippy"
-Dennis
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What I used was Fiebings Green leather dye. It was so very deep and so very green that I ended up cutting the dye with high percent rubbing alcohol to make it less intense. I had various glasses set up in the kitchen with varying degrees of greenness, and it looked like a laboratory. Then selected the one that I imagined would look the best. It's potent stuff and despite my best efforts and hygiene, I got green fingers! Figuring there is some (pro and con) discussion about using alcohol to clean the bow hair, maybe it wouldn't have much or any effect on the performance.
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Fiddlerman said
Not sure what to use but Glasser is obviously doing it somehow. So saddle dye is what you recommend?
I'm game to try anything. More suggestions?
I decided to browse some horse forums to see what they use, and there was a source for actual horse hair dye that they put on their main and tails for shows, etc. And also some other ideas from different members there.
This is the one for the hair dye, and has different colors: http://www.luckypony.com/Produ.....dcategory=
Another person said they use human punky color on their horse's main. I had to Google it, and found this place: http://www.funkyshop.com/punky.html
Someone else just uses a color hairspray that they get from Walmart. But they also mentioned that it brushes out easy, so I don't know how well it would stay on the bow hair.
Here's the forum I was at if you want to read the page. If you scroll towards the bottom, there's pictures of the horse decked out in the color hairspray.....lol!
http://www.horsegroomingsuppli.....00045.html
Hope that helps
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