So you want to Build a SELFBOW! Q&A with Clay Hayes
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Learning how to build a selfbow is one of the most rewarding challenges you'll ever undertake. Watching an arrow fly from a primitive bow that you've crafted with your own hands is truely amazing. But there seems to be a lot of would be bowyers out there who are hesitant to get into bow building for one reason or another.
Some think that a self bow is enherently less effective than a modern longbow or recurve. Some think they're can't shoot as accuratly. Other's think there is a lot of maintenence involved with these wood bows.
In this video, Clay Hayes answeres common questions about the speed, accuracy, challenge, and maintenence of selfbows.
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Got me some wood. Started making shavings. Thank you for getting me into this Clay!
I started about 1 year ago from watching your videos . I have not made a perfect bow but I've had several perfect journeys . Making the bow is the enjoyment . The more you enjoy the journey the better your bow turns out . I flint knap and have never made the perfect blade but I've knapped thousands. I've enjoyed bleeding out on every one . Spending time with other people making stuff is also just as valuable. You can't learn if your not cutting,chopping,and bleeding .
very true!
Spot on Clay!
I’ve been making bows over 50 years and have never seen a perfect example. Every one is unique and all have flaws.
The old Bowyers had a saying
“If you’re not breaking bows you’re not making bows” it is so true.
Failure is the cornerstone to success!
True!
Massive thanks to you Clay much of what I have learned about bow making I have learned from your videos.
I think your bows here are awesome. There's a rugged beauty in their ugly.
Their really cool
AWSOME speech. I am just about to finish my first black locust bow and you sir are the one who inspired me about a year ago to start building self bows . I have picked up a Osage bow stave at a primitive art festival that's going to be my next bow love your videos clay keep them coming.
Thanks Chris
Great video
Good video as always. I have been building bows for several years and like anything getting started is the hardest part. Once I let my first arrow fly from a bow I made, I was hooked.
It’s addictive for sure!
It is really cool to look at some of your first bows and see how far you have come. My first Osage Orange bow I call Old Ugly. I started making bows about 11 years ago and have seen a huge difference in my first bows to what I make now. Thanks for the great video!
You’re most welcome.
Great Video and Thank you for the encouragement to get started.
You’re welcome
Very well said as it is an adventure. As you progress your tastes will change.
Love it, just bought a maple board bow yesterday. Time to get cranking
Awesome!
@@clayhayeshunter does your book require a lot of tools for bow building? Or is it more a minimalist kind of book? I'm a broke father of two and would really like to get into bow making... I don't have a shed with a ton of power tools. I'd be able to buy some hand tools but that's about it.
Great video. I just harvested a black locust sapling I've had my eye on for about 4 years, and split and roughed out a hop hornbeam stave for my next bow.
Cool!
I recently got back into bow building. Every bow you build will teach you something. Sometimes the lessons are heartbreaking as well as painful. The journey is worth it though. I killed a Whitetail doe with an Osage selfbow, rivercane arrow, and obsidian arrowhead, all of which I made. THAT is an amazing feeling! Now, thanks to this channel, I can make my own bowstrings too. Thanks Clay!
You’re most welcome!
Great video Clay. I have a problem with patients in building my own bows. As far as any of those bows being ugly, beauty is in the eye of the bowholder. Keep up the great work.
Thanks Bill
Main point: sense of accomplishment. Are you a killer or a hunter? Is the sole purpose to take game or is it to experience the hunt, to learn game habits and how to get close to them, to experience nature at a more primal level, to hold something in your hands that you've made, know its limitations, and make it a part of your eye, your hand, and your thought. Do I get an amen, Clay?
Absolutely
G'day Clay, since I saw your first video 6 months ago I'm 10 bows in and broken 3 (one literally exploded and scared the McDooley outta me)...I'm so hooked and always trying different timbers here in OZ. Thanks for all your information mate, it's great having to adapt to the different woods over here and working out what shape and size of limb works best. Cheers, Clay
What part of Oz ya from?
@@clayhayeshunter I'm in the snowy Mountains in a ski resort. It's all National park so no hunting, but my friends have farms...planning on trying to sneak up on my first deer before winter with one of my bows! I'm sure it'll be a laugh first time ;)
Cool, there’s a fellow here taking a bow building class from about 2 hours north of Melbourne.
@@clayhayeshunter Sweet! That'll me me next year I'm hoping! I bet he's the bloke with the Bluey singlet and thongs ;)
A week ago I thought thongs were underwear that showed your a$$ cheeks 😂 I’m learning all sorts of new terms!
Great words of encouragement, applicable to many aspects of life; glad I subscribed, wish I could patron.
Thanks from Oklahoma
awesome video thanks, I still have my first bow a unbacked Red Oak bow, dont shoot it anymore but its been a heck of a journey.
tradbowyer1975 i have à bord of oak i was wondering if it was a good Wood for a bow im a total beginner in selfbow?
@@13629094 yes it will make a good bow, just make sure you follow Clay's build videos to make sure it has propper grain orientation and go slow you will have a good bow
i have made half a dozen bows or so some have been good some were not so much I don't have that many tools i have made some with just and old rubbish Axe some with just a knife. I don't have great sheds with the best tools like others but I have enjoyed doing them all if you are not enjoying doing it find something else because you are not doing the right thing. if you just enjoy shooting buy a bow that suits you and get on with enjoying the experience and be a great archer but everyone should live with the bow and arrows make them part of you. my dream is to have my own wood were I can shoot al day every day and be an exceptional Archer
I was terrified that my first bow would break ,however it was 85 lb , Osage , I've built them out of ash ,hickory, Russian olive , hornbeem,
My first elk hunt was so cool the elk was 15ft away with a total pass thru
Is his book on bow building using basic tools or if I buy the book does it requires me to have a full garage loaded down with tools.???? I want a book that uses basic hand tools.
I split out about 15 hard maple staves last summer. I think they’re about ready to chop up!!!
Good deal!
Clay, next t-shirt. “Go get ya some wood and start makin some shavins.
Haha, we’ll put that on the website!
Great video Clay! I was wondering how fast the bow you killed your first deer with shoots a 10 gpp arrow? I've made a handful of bows and just wanted to see how well I'm doing
I’ve never soljot it through a chrono but I’d guess somewhere in the 150s.
we dont have home depot
I was building a bow the other day out of a hard wood from the local hardware store, I was working on it for a few hours and In the process of tillering, the bow snapped. This was my first attempt at crafting a bow so I am aware of the facts that bows break but I am struggling to find a good wood to uses as everything I have found from the local hardware store has a short grain.
Are there any tips that you have to help me ?
Thank you
Hi Sean, sometimes you have to look through a bunch of wood to find a good piece. They may have a different selection a little later. You could also go out and harvest a few staves. There's usually something suitable nearby no matter where you live. ch
Osage bows last forever I have my dad's and it's 40+ years old, he coated it every year with bear grease
One of my bows exploded stringing it. It cut me.😢
My first one broke... I'm only on my 4th.
Stick with it!
Grabs a saw a buggers off to a tree I've been eying up....
Haha! Get it!
You are not going to make a perfect bow on your hundredth try, and arrows are even harder. =)