Dan, Just tie a bowline knot for your top loop. If you tie it correctly- very easy- it will never let go!! Quicker and much easier!! Keep up the good work.
That cardboard wrapping idea is such a handy tip. Newbies need to do that! I’ve had to start again so many times from a big knot and tangle down the bottom of the loose ends from untwisting them soo many times
All ya need to know re tillering string. Including the all-important guidance re how long to set your tillering string for long-string tillering. New bow builders really need to know about how long to set long string at. Also, it's great that ya carefully explain the "whys" of your recommends. ALSO, wrapping each bundle around something looks to be big help in keeping them untwisted. Thanks!!
Wow! I've watched other tillering process that were good, but you have opened up a different way of looking at the tillering process...especially the concept when you first start out with a different perspective of how the back twist is used and then rolling into a bundle to help from getting twisted and tangled. Such a great video! Thanks!
Hey Dan! Could I make a suggestion for a video? I'm really really enjoying all your content, absolutely chewing it all up. But while I notice that there's plenty of advice for tillering, I think perhaps you forget that your eye has a lot more experience than mine, and many other viewers. I'd like to ask you to put together perhaps some kind of tillering mega compilation - or something of that sort. A kind of "Look at this tiller - can you see the problem? Here's the problem." because as you've said in many videos, you just need to remove wood from areas that don't bend enough. It would just be GREAT to see more tillering, perhaps a little more explanation on how profile affects tiller, and such. Thanks for any time you take to read, or reply!
Thank you so much for this video. It helped me a lot when using my first tillering rope. What kind of wax do you use? If it's homemade, could you tell me how you made it? Thank you so much!
In an earlier video you mentioned a beeswax, pine tar and olive oil mixture you put on drawknife handles. Do you have a video describing the mixing of such? I'm looking for a source of pine tar too.
Great video as always, but I have to ask. Is it just a thing bowyers do adding videos of animals at random points in the film? It seems a lot of bowyers do that. Just curious as I am tryina pick up bow making and if I make videos I wanna make certain I’m doing it correctly. Haha!
Hello, could you perhaps record a more detailed video about your table where you create bows? I'm interested in the dimensions and how the mechanism is made.
I have a question, i got a 1.3-1.5 meter piece of cherry. Thickest end around 10 cm and the other to 8 cm. And its alreadly slightly evenly curved. Do i need to bend it back to straight or keep it like that?
Is it reflex or deflex? Post some pictures on r/bowyer and I can give more solid advice. If slight reflex Id leave it. With mild deflex I’ll make a bow with flipped tips. If the bend is more than a few inches I’ll usually straighten it out or use other wood
Okay a true amature here who just likes bow but know nothing about them, is there anyone who'll help me make a bow( I live in a city where there's not a lot of trees but I want to make one from scratch instead of buying it)
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Dan, Just tie a bowline knot for your top loop. If you tie it correctly- very easy- it will never let go!!
Quicker and much easier!!
Keep up the good work.
I’ve never had a timber hitch let go. I can tie and adjust a timber hitch a bit faster
That cardboard wrapping idea is such a handy tip. Newbies need to do that! I’ve had to start again so many times from a big knot and tangle down the bottom of the loose ends from untwisting them soo many times
Very useful information and beautiful nature shots .
Excellent! You should make a series on tillering (all kinds, and all steps), that would be very nice and very useful. Thanks for sharing.
That’s great !!!! No longer need to buy !!! Very well explained. Thanks
All ya need to know re tillering string. Including the all-important guidance re how long to set your tillering string for long-string tillering. New bow builders really need to know about how long to set long string at. Also, it's great that ya carefully explain the "whys" of your recommends. ALSO, wrapping each bundle around something looks to be big help in keeping them untwisted. Thanks!!
Wow! I've watched other tillering process that were good, but you have opened up a different way of looking at the tillering process...especially the concept when you first start out with a different perspective of how the back twist is used and then rolling into a bundle to help from getting twisted and tangled. Such a great video! Thanks!
You explain stuff so well wish this vid had been around when I irst started making strings
Really awesome video, very helpful. I am attempting my first bow soon. Thank you.
😄👍 Serendipity, I'm tillering 2 bows currently, with a dismantled 3-ply jute rope. Nice beasties.
Very informational.
Hey Dan! Could I make a suggestion for a video?
I'm really really enjoying all your content, absolutely chewing it all up.
But while I notice that there's plenty of advice for tillering, I think perhaps you forget that your eye has a lot more experience than mine, and many other viewers.
I'd like to ask you to put together perhaps some kind of tillering mega compilation - or something of that sort. A kind of "Look at this tiller - can you see the problem? Here's the problem." because as you've said in many videos, you just need to remove wood from areas that don't bend enough. It would just be GREAT to see more tillering, perhaps a little more explanation on how profile affects tiller, and such.
Thanks for any time you take to read, or reply!
i only subed today but i love youre content and i love this place
Thank you so much for this video. It helped me a lot when using my first tillering rope. What kind of wax do you use? If it's homemade, could you tell me how you made it? Thank you so much!
I just use straight beeswax on strings. You can also melt in some olive oil and pine resin, but don’t have to.
In an earlier video you mentioned a beeswax, pine tar and olive oil mixture you put on drawknife handles. Do you have a video describing the mixing of such? I'm looking for a source of pine tar too.
Hi Dan, Do you ever make three ply bowstrings?
With natural fibers. Using synthetics I don’t think it’s worth the extra work
Great video as always, but I have to ask. Is it just a thing bowyers do adding videos of animals at random points in the film? It seems a lot of bowyers do that. Just curious as I am tryina pick up bow making and if I make videos I wanna make certain I’m doing it correctly. Haha!
The bow gods make us do it. A small sacrifice
I have some 1000lb dynema cord, is there a reason not to use it as a tillering string?
Hello, could you perhaps record a more detailed video about your table where you create bows? I'm interested in the dimensions and how the mechanism is made.
See my video on workholding methods. The specific dimensions are not important but you can see in general how the vise works in that video
I have a question, i got a 1.3-1.5 meter piece of cherry. Thickest end around 10 cm and the other to 8 cm. And its alreadly slightly evenly curved. Do i need to bend it back to straight or keep it like that?
Is it reflex or deflex? Post some pictures on r/bowyer and I can give more solid advice.
If slight reflex Id leave it. With mild deflex I’ll make a bow with flipped tips. If the bend is more than a few inches I’ll usually straighten it out or use other wood
@@DanSantanaBows yeah its a reflex...
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Can i make arrow shafts out of chinaberry wood?
Pretty much any straight hardwood shoot can make a decent arrow shaft. But yes I’ve heard of chinaberry specifically being used
@DanSantanaBows thank you so much!
Which wood is good for a good bow
See my video on bow woods, as well as the list of bow woods in the description of the video
i wish you'd have shown all that first twisting and counter twisting without your chuff8ng hands in the way lol
horrible missed half the video because of frogs coming up and cant see what you do from your angle
Okay a true amature here who just likes bow but know nothing about them, is there anyone who'll help me make a bow( I live in a city where there's not a lot of trees but I want to make one from scratch instead of buying it)
Have you seen my board bow tutorial? Visit me on r/bowyer if you need any build help and we’ll get you through it!
@@DanSantanaBows I'll be doing it now👍👍