My Great Uncle made a lot of Hickory Bows, he used pieces of Broken glass to smooth and shape his work. He lived in the mountains of West Virginia, and made all us kids bows.
My first bow was given to me by my Grandma who allowed Chippewa people to camp on her farm on their way to Milwaukee Wisconsin to trade and get supplies.They gave her the bow and I picked it up and learned to use it.I now shoot in the NFAA as a pro shooter and materials have changed.We use a lot of aluminum and carbon fiber now.Imagine I could go back and show the Chippewa people the bows I have now❤️I don’t feel that old.
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the process of making this bow, and the outcome is a first-rate piece of art and craftsmanship. There's a lot of soul and spirit in that simple bow. Thank you for sharing!
Thank you very much for keeping the audio at normal speed while speeding up the footage. I do not know why this isn't done more, it's far more enjoyable to listen to.
I got "Bows & Arrows of the Native Americans" by Jim Hamm, from the library and began making semi-self bows back in the 90s. I made several from hickory, mulberry, and bodark (bois de arc) but my best sinew & snakeskin backed bows were from South American green heart. It's a dense, springy wood and is very forgiving. Not sure it's even available anymore but I still have a 25yr. old stave left over. Really enjoy your vids!
I’ve started building bows I’ve made 4 that are functional. I like the way you explain bow making. Learned some key things from your videos. Thanks. I liked watching.
As a bowman for all my life i can understand the pride in the finished product. My mother and father started an achery club up at the end of the war that was one of the biggest in England at the time. Because of being straight after the war there was no place to go and buy bows and such, but my father a master carpenter and joiner set too and made all the equipment, including all the arm guards arrows and strings. My sister and i started shooting at about five years old and it was a practice i kept up till bone problems made me pack up but my sister still shoots. My fatger was using a bow that was about 90 lbs draw weight and my mother drew a fifty pound bow , all longbows. Its a good sport really because the compatition is against yourself and your last best score. I moved countries and kept up the practice by joining the local club as a master bowman, but i look at all the modern equipment and how far it has come, to the point where i wonder just how much of the basic skill is left, Most archers today know nothing about string walking, however if they enjoy the sport then they have lost nothing.
THE GUITAR IN THE BACK GOUD WAS VERY RELAXING, glad you could get this hickory, it's going to be a great bow, thanks for sharing you skills and hand tools. I was teaching wood working to high school students years ago and many of them became good construction workers and furniture makers. ✨🎡✨✌😊👍🐱🐉
Great video Thank you Ranger. One neat short story. My father in law grew up with a metal coffee can, on an open flame, to radiate heat. He waas doing this, in our little camper trailer, and discovered, that not all coffee cans, are metal nowadays. Lesson learned, be certain that you have a fully Metallic coffee can, and not one with cardboard or plastic sides. Great video.
I have used my identical-to-yours 12" Craftsman bandsaw for almost 30 years, and it did most things I needed. In retirement, I upgraded to a Laguna 14/12. Oh my, it was pricey, but the difference is beyond belief. I now use my bandsaw as my table saw many times when ripping anything less than the throat width. Material just flows through the blade. It has become my go-to machine for numerous operations. I wish I had bit the bullet long ago and got a heavy duty bandsaw. I didn't know how versatile a really nice bandsaw could be.
I played around with bow making around 5 years ago and then stopped for various reasons. Really loved it. I'm watching a lot of RUclips videos for inspiration to get back into it. Was awesome to see you tear down a piece of hickory. I made a few of those and they're a lot of fun to make. What made me lol, was when I was watching you use the Nicholson I was thinking to myself I wonder if he knows about the Shinto. You stopped reached over and grabbed the Shinto. I found the Shinto to make the whole process a whole pile easier. Thanks for the great video, it was very inspiring.
A very excellent instructional!! I have made a few bows, both hickory and Osage, and you are dead on with your detailed instructions. I will advise others wishing to get started making their own self bow to watch this video. Great job and thank you so very much!!
The clock shows 1:55 and i´m coming from my f... work. I now my English is not the best, i am from Germany, but i love your Videos. Great Job! Now i know, what i have to do soon. Bow Building! Thank you! Tom
This is incredible craftmanship which is just lost on so many people nowadays. Watching this video really brought a little bit of peace to my chaotic and violent life for an hour 😊✌️❤️
Hey tip with tung oil. Rub it in with a rag until it's hot to your hand. It makes the oil penetrate better and it doesn't leave excess oil on the surface. A couple layers of doing that works great. Its what I was taught by my grandfather who made custom rifle stocks
I learned a little something when working with band saws and I'm gonna explain as clearly as possible. Instead of cutting curves with the band saw you should put kerfs into the excess material and then go through cutting straight lines with the band saw. After that you can use a file to shape the curve. This is so that your band saw doesn't get dull or break. Hope this helps.
That's exactly what I suggested to my husband (who is a dam good carpenter, no disrespect intended to him.) But he said nahhh....the saw came off the guides, and hasn't been fixed until 4 months went by. Love him, tho!
Good craftsmanship. Lot of work and patience to make a bow without power tools. I would like to mention that at 35:04 you said "put too much more pressure ..."; well you are pulling on a string (cable) and you cannot put pressure in/on a string. Strings can only take tension and pressure is what you put in your car tires. What you are doing is pulling on a string and you are pulling with a force of about 50 lb, but not pressure and defensively not compression. Pressure is a measure that takes an area like pounds per square inch or newton per square meter. When you put air in your tires most cars take 30 psi (30 pounds per square inch). Anyway, beautiful bow, thank you for sharing!
I learned to make bows as a youngster. And I do mean youngster. I made my first bow when I was 7 yrs. old. It wasn't very pretty but it shot well. As I recall it was about 25lbs. @ 24". Powerful enough to bag cottontails. My stave was a scrap piece of hard rock maple. My Dad was building a rustic rocking chair. It was a genuine learning experience. I no longer "chase the grain" but rather use dimensional hardwood and back the bow with Sinew. I still make very limited use of modern materials. I use hide glue because it doesn't creep. Waterproofing is home harvested Pine Oil mixed with Carnuba and Bees Wax mixed in. My favorite limb wrap is Sturgeon Skin. I started with Raw Hide and progressed through Snake Skin and on the Sturgeon Skin. I also switched to Asian/Turkish style Horse Bows. Much faster cast and compact in the thick woods of the Catskills.
Wow. Made my first bow a couple of years ago. Holmegaard (ish) from hickory. Took me something like 50 hours. You did it in a couple of days. Now I have a better idea how much I don’t know. Super fun video to watch. Subscribed.
Thank you Sir, for showing the making of Hickory flatbow. Now I understood that I know how to build a flatbow. I myself from North East India, under the state of Meghalaya and in the Garo Hills, Tura. Village: Upper Babupara. Tribes_ Garo(A'chik). Thank You.
Thanks really enjoyed it. I made 6 longbows back in the 90s. Costello/Maracaibo box wood (sold as “lemonwood” in the Uk, but it actually isn’t), backed with hickory. Flatbows are a little more tricky!
I have been making biws for three years really a stress relieve, 69 years old, shot a eight point buck year, now that is a good feeling when you make a kill with something made by hand, tell my buddies they are cheating using a rifle at 200 yards, dropped a monster nine point this year,,,bowers for ever!!!
So, you did a great job using modern tools. Now, we can really appreciate how primitive craftsmen made functional bows with the tools and materials they had to work with. It really puts things in perspective. (I'm not dissing your work by any means, Sir. Well done!) I'm just saying . . .
I love your workshop, it looks like it has real atmosphere. I do mostly metalwork, with a lot of welding, so the wood shavings I generate, have to go straight away. Interesting video, I made a bow earlier this year, from Australlian Oak, but it snapped during the tillering. Will try again someday, out of a more suitable timber, I can get Sugar Maple here.
Thanks Keith. I’d say do some research for what wood you can order online relatively locally that would be good for a bow. Osage, hickory, ash, yew, etc. good luck.
Unfortunately, it is very hard to get those timbers here in Australia, certainly in South Australia where I live. We do have a specialist timber yard that has some rock or sugar maple 2" square blocks, 6ft long at A$150 each, which is too much to waste when starting out.
Thank you for the lessons in bow making. I've been thinking about doing this for a while. I have the same horrible band saw as you do, only mine is older.
This video is great!! I thought it might get boring watching someone make a bow for an hour, but it was captivating all the way! And the camerawork was spot on too!!
Awesome!!!!! Thank you for sharing with us without having to take off of work and money to get to class. I know I don’t have the means right now to get to a class like this. So thank you soooo much!!!!
This was fascinating to watch! How you took a piece of hickory and worked it down to a beautiful bow! I wouldn't have a clue on how to do this until watching you. There is so much to consider! Beautiful work! It must be wonderful to shoot a fabulous bow that you made yourself!
Great video, enjoyed watching it very much. I started with crafting my own bows in november 2022 and finished my first 2 longbows just a few days ago. But I really got problems with the handshock! How may I reduce or avoid it as much as possible...?
First, Amazing video as always, the filming and edit, music, the crafted art itself But secondly i gotta say I love the little cameos that your daughter does, this one was hilarious how she came in from the side with the slow wave during the timelapse! makes it such a wholesome video
Hi im mike from the UK american flat bow is all ive ever shot, i started off reletavily cheap but i splashed out and bought s border made bow from scotland uk would really love to try one of your hickory bows love the video
Loved watching the video my only critique would be straightening the curve in the top with some heat but it still turned out very well and is a perfect size for the little lady in the video
GREAT VIDEO! Awesome seeing people working with there hands (not sad the band saw didn't work) true craftsman are few and far between now days. I look forward to seeing more on your channel.
Steam bend that limb and get it straight. It will tiller better and you will get better energy distribution over the length of the bow. I would also suggest getting a draw knife with some weight and backbone to it. Mine is almost 3" from edge to spine. I build my bows out of osage orange and this knife slices through like butter. Made my first bow in 1982.
Brace height should never be more than 6” above the handle - called the Howard Hill said if a str a straight end American Longbow is six feet between the bow nocks the max fistmele no more than six inches. The problem with using oil on a self bow is that it softens and weakens the wood Cells and overtime it will reduce the weight of the bow.
I know this was long ago, but you should do a checkering on the handle, that 100 % tung oil is the one that I use after carving or checkering gun stocks, normally from 7 to 9 coats depends on how much shine I want.
Very cool! My wife worked with Kirk at Cromwell, it would be cool if he ran the class again. Small World... perusing some bushcraft videos, just stumbled upon this.
Hey great video. I'm over In the UK and currently on my 3rd hickory bow. Makes a great bow wood, but one thing I would like to emphasize is how bloody tough this wood is. It will blunt your tools and make you work damn hard. I started with the cheap red oak bow build we've all seen a couple of years ago and hickory is like working one of the terminators legs down into a bow compared to that.
I really enjoy building flat bows. All I have available to me locally is Persimmon. I need to order a stave of Hickory and give it a try. Great video, I enjoyed it.
Thanks for the post, man. It's so good to watch a craftsman or woman do what they do - even 2 years afterwards. Big thanks.
Thank for watching.
My Great Uncle made a lot of Hickory Bows, he used pieces of Broken glass to smooth and shape his work. He lived in the mountains of West Virginia, and made all us kids bows.
That sounds very cool. Been wanting to learn to make different styles of bows. Sound very fun. Just curious if you still shoot it?
what an awesome memory!
A great memory! Cheers Gary.
@@jacksonjohnson6581 It was lost in a fire.
That's awesome
My first bow was given to me by my Grandma who allowed Chippewa people to camp on her farm on their way to Milwaukee Wisconsin to trade and get supplies.They gave her the bow and I picked it up and learned to use it.I now shoot in the NFAA as a pro shooter and materials have changed.We use a lot of aluminum and carbon fiber now.Imagine I could go back and show the Chippewa people the bows I have now❤️I don’t feel that old.
What an amazing experience. That’s for sharing. I’m glad I could help bring back good memories.
The bow was made out of Hickory❤️
Man, that is a neat story!
What a beautiful bow! Thanks so much for all the minutia specific to Hickory Bows, Awesome!!!
You bet!
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the process of making this bow, and the outcome is a first-rate piece of art and craftsmanship. There's a lot of soul and spirit in that simple bow. Thank you for sharing!
Crystal clear and honest. Very well done.
Thank you!
Thank you very much for keeping the audio at normal speed while speeding up the footage. I do not know why this isn't done more, it's far more enjoyable to listen to.
We like it a little more that way too. Cheers Gavin!
I got "Bows & Arrows of the Native Americans" by Jim Hamm, from the library and began making semi-self bows back in the 90s. I made several from hickory, mulberry, and bodark (bois de arc) but my best sinew & snakeskin backed bows were from South American green heart. It's a dense, springy wood and is very forgiving. Not sure it's even available anymore but I still have a 25yr. old stave left over. Really enjoy your vids!
Thanks David. I'll look into it!
I bought that book too. A great read, and Jim is a funny guy. A wealth of info on those native American bows.
I’ve started building bows I’ve made 4 that are functional. I like the way you explain bow making. Learned some key things from your videos. Thanks. I liked watching.
As a bowman for all my life i can understand the pride in the finished product.
My mother and father started an achery club up at the end of the war that was one of the biggest in England at the time.
Because of being straight after the war there was no place to go and buy bows and such, but my father a master carpenter and joiner set too and made all the equipment, including all the arm guards arrows and strings.
My sister and i started shooting at about five years old and it was a practice i kept up till bone problems made me pack up but my sister still shoots.
My fatger was using a bow that was about 90 lbs draw weight and my mother drew a fifty pound bow , all longbows.
Its a good sport really because the compatition is against yourself and your last best score.
I moved countries and kept up the practice by joining the local club as a master bowman, but i look at all the modern equipment and how far it has come, to the point where i wonder just how much of the basic skill is left,
Most archers today know nothing about string walking, however if they enjoy the sport then they have lost nothing.
THE GUITAR IN THE BACK GOUD WAS VERY RELAXING, glad you could get this hickory, it's going to be a great bow, thanks for sharing you skills and hand tools. I was teaching wood working to high school students years ago and many of them became good construction workers and furniture makers. ✨🎡✨✌😊👍🐱🐉
Thanks for the kind words OHRDN!
@@TheArtofCraftsmanship 🏵️💫
I really like the way he did his tips, the leaf make it good ,good dezine
This is splendid. The way you visualised how it would emerge from the 'wavey' hickory stave 😎. Thank you. 😊😊
Thanks for watching!
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شكراً لكم ولشرحكم للطريقة بشكل مُبَسَّط ووافي
Great video
Thank you Ranger.
One neat short story.
My father in law grew up with a metal coffee can, on an open flame, to radiate heat.
He waas doing this, in our little camper trailer, and discovered, that not all coffee cans, are metal nowadays.
Lesson learned, be certain that you have a fully Metallic coffee can, and not one with cardboard or plastic sides.
Great video.
I have used my identical-to-yours 12" Craftsman bandsaw for almost 30 years, and it did most things I needed. In retirement, I upgraded to a Laguna 14/12. Oh my, it was pricey, but the difference is beyond belief. I now use my bandsaw as my table saw many times when ripping anything less than the throat width. Material just flows through the blade. It has become my go-to machine for numerous operations. I wish I had bit the bullet long ago and got a heavy duty bandsaw. I didn't know how versatile a really nice bandsaw could be.
That's not a bad idea Tony. Thanks for watching!
I admire your talent I hope to be as gifted with tools one day as you are
I played around with bow making around 5 years ago and then stopped for various reasons. Really loved it. I'm watching a lot of RUclips videos for inspiration to get back into it. Was awesome to see you tear down a piece of hickory. I made a few of those and they're a lot of fun to make. What made me lol, was when I was watching you use the Nicholson I was thinking to myself I wonder if he knows about the Shinto. You stopped reached over and grabbed the Shinto. I found the Shinto to make the whole process a whole pile easier. Thanks for the great video, it was very inspiring.
Cheers Mike! Shinto is great. If you make some new bows, send pics to theartofcraftsmanship@gmail.com
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Well done...
A very excellent instructional!! I have made a few bows, both hickory and Osage, and you are dead on with your detailed instructions. I will advise others wishing to get started making their own self bow to watch this video. Great job and thank you so very much!!
Thanks for watching Al!
You Sir, are awesome. Gonna binge on your videos now 🙏
The clock shows 1:55 and i´m coming from my f... work.
I now my English is not the best, i am from Germany, but i love your Videos.
Great Job! Now i know, what i have to do soon.
Bow Building!
Thank you!
Tom
Thanks Tom! Good luck with the Bow.
Great video! Thanks for sharing your experience and your enthusiasm shows through. Good job!👍🏼👍🏼
Great bow, and great video! Making them with you back in the day was an absolute blast.
It really was. Thanks D-Rock!
This is incredible craftmanship which is just lost on so many people nowadays. Watching this video really brought a little bit of peace to my chaotic and violent life for an hour 😊✌️❤️
@Fist Bump I love violence and chaos
@@barrybadman4624 are you 12 that sounds like gta lobbies
Excelente vídeo de confeção de um arco. Parabéns!!
Great to see how this was done. Lot of work. My father had a bow like this that he made. Great to see how he did it.
Thanks for watching Tom.
Hey tip with tung oil. Rub it in with a rag until it's hot to your hand. It makes the oil penetrate better and it doesn't leave excess oil on the surface. A couple layers of doing that works great. Its what I was taught by my grandfather who made custom rifle stocks
Thanks! I’ll try that on the next one.
I learned a little something when working with band saws and I'm gonna explain as clearly as possible. Instead of cutting curves with the band saw you should put kerfs into the excess material and then go through cutting straight lines with the band saw. After that you can use a file to shape the curve. This is so that your band saw doesn't get dull or break. Hope this helps.
That's exactly what I suggested to my husband (who is a dam good carpenter, no disrespect intended to him.) But he said nahhh....the saw came off the guides, and hasn't been fixed until 4 months went by. Love him, tho!
Beautiful bow. Great build. Nice shooting. I am impressed 👍💪💯
Good craftsmanship. Lot of work and patience to make a bow without power tools.
I would like to mention that at 35:04 you said "put too much more pressure ..."; well you are pulling on a string (cable) and you cannot put pressure in/on a string. Strings can only take tension and pressure is what you put in your car tires. What you are doing is pulling on a string and you are pulling with a force of about 50 lb, but not pressure and defensively not compression.
Pressure is a measure that takes an area like pounds per square inch or newton per square meter. When you put air in your tires most cars take 30 psi (30 pounds per square inch).
Anyway, beautiful bow, thank you for sharing!
Aahhh. I love the moment a bowyer discovers the Shinto rasp. ❤️
Excellent workmanship!!
Thank you very much!
I learned to make bows as a youngster. And I do mean youngster. I made my first bow when I was 7 yrs. old. It wasn't very pretty but it shot well. As I recall it was about 25lbs. @ 24".
Powerful enough to bag cottontails.
My stave was a scrap piece of hard rock maple.
My Dad was building a rustic rocking chair. It was a genuine learning experience.
I no longer "chase the grain" but rather use dimensional hardwood and back the bow with Sinew.
I still make very limited use of modern materials. I use hide glue because it doesn't creep. Waterproofing is home harvested Pine Oil mixed with Carnuba and Bees Wax mixed in. My favorite limb wrap is Sturgeon Skin. I started with Raw Hide and progressed through Snake Skin and on the Sturgeon Skin.
I also switched to Asian/Turkish style Horse Bows. Much faster cast and compact in the thick woods of the Catskills.
Thanks for the info David!
I'll bet those bows are something to behold.
I sure enjoyed the patience and craftmanship that went into that making your longbow. Thank you for sharing it with us!
Wow. Made my first bow a couple of years ago. Holmegaard (ish) from hickory. Took me something like 50 hours. You did it in a couple of days. Now I have a better idea how much I don’t know. Super fun video to watch. Subscribed.
Thank you Sir, for showing the making of Hickory flatbow. Now I understood that I know how to build a flatbow. I myself from North East India, under the state of Meghalaya and in the Garo Hills, Tura. Village: Upper Babupara. Tribes_ Garo(A'chik). Thank You.
Thanks really enjoyed it. I made 6 longbows back in the 90s. Costello/Maracaibo box wood (sold as “lemonwood” in the Uk, but it actually isn’t), backed with hickory. Flatbows are a little more tricky!
Good job dude plenty of detail and no bs
How satisfying it must be to finally shoot your own creation. You do amazing work!
Yeah, last week I shot my son. Felt amazing 🙌🙌
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I have been making biws for three years really a stress relieve, 69 years old, shot a eight point buck year, now that is a good feeling when you make a kill with something made by hand, tell my buddies they are cheating using a rifle at 200 yards, dropped a monster nine point this year,,,bowers for ever!!!
So, you did a great job using modern tools. Now, we can really appreciate how primitive craftsmen made functional bows with the tools and materials they had to work with. It really puts things in perspective. (I'm not dissing your work by any means, Sir. Well done!) I'm just saying . . .
Thanks!
A beautiful piece of craftsmanship, thank you for sharing!
A perfectionist!!! I'm Loving it.... 😊
Do you use a moisture probe, I heard Hickorey is phenomenal at 6 percent
I love your workshop, it looks like it has real atmosphere. I do mostly metalwork, with a lot of welding, so the wood shavings I generate, have to go straight away. Interesting video, I made a bow earlier this year, from Australlian Oak, but it snapped during the tillering. Will try again someday, out of a more suitable timber, I can get Sugar Maple here.
Thanks Keith. I’d say do some research for what wood you can order online relatively locally that would be good for a bow. Osage, hickory, ash, yew, etc. good luck.
Unfortunately, it is very hard to get those timbers here in Australia, certainly in South Australia where I live. We do have a specialist timber yard that has some rock or sugar maple 2" square blocks, 6ft long at A$150 each, which is too much to waste when starting out.
I am also a creative enthusiast, but I admire you for being highly creative,👍
Best instructional video so far .. I will use it as a reference
Great to watch how a real flatbow is made, I'm impressed by your skills with woodwork (and iron as well). Thanks for sharing.
You make it seem like a meditation to make the bow. It is beautiful, great job!
I am in awe. This auto played from another video I was watching and I just could not turn away. I was completely sucked in thank you
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Wow, there is a TON of shake/wobble in those limbs when firing. How can this be corrected?
That’s a tough one. I think a different shaped limb and maybe a backing for extra support should have been the better way to go. Thanks for watching.
Thank you for the lessons in bow making. I've been thinking about doing this for a while. I have the same horrible band saw as you do, only mine is older.
Good luck George!
Very satisfying video, I wish I could smell the wood. Thanks!
Get out and do yourself if you can! It's great fun
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It only looks amazing, to really tell I would need to test it myself for a few years.
This video is great!! I thought it might get boring watching someone make a bow for an hour, but it was captivating all the way! And the camerawork was spot on too!!
Thanks for that Laz. Glad you stuck with it!
Beautiful bow, awesome job. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks JJJ!
WOW.... I'm impressed and haven't anything else to say. A true craftsman!!!😁
Well said haha
Awesome!!!!!
Thank you for sharing with us without having to take off of work and money to get to class.
I know I don’t have the means right now to get to a class like this.
So thank you soooo much!!!!
Cheers Bigfoot!
This was fascinating to watch! How you took a piece of hickory and worked it down to a beautiful bow! I wouldn't have a clue on how to do this until watching you. There is so much to consider!
Beautiful work! It must be wonderful to shoot a fabulous bow that you made yourself!
I know, right? It's awesome! Have you done one yet? I even made an arrow!
Great video, enjoyed watching it very much. I started with crafting my own bows in november 2022 and finished my first 2 longbows just a few days ago. But I really got problems with the handshock! How may I reduce or avoid it as much as possible...?
Beautiful, I love the asymmetry
Thank you! Cheers 88!
I can't even imagine what kind of person set unlike in a so good content
probably someone that cant whittle a pile of shavings..lol...
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First, Amazing video as always, the filming and edit, music, the crafted art itself
But secondly i gotta say I love the little cameos that your daughter does, this one was hilarious how she came in from the side with the slow wave during the timelapse!
makes it such a wholesome video
😁🙏
Beautiful manufacturing process. I enjoyed watching it. Greetings from Buenos Aires.
Amazing work ! Congratulations for your know-how !
Thank you.
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Great looking and shooting bow. Thanks for sharing. I hope to make my first one.
Hi im mike from the UK american flat bow is all ive ever shot, i started off reletavily cheap but i splashed out and bought s border made bow from scotland uk would really love to try one of your hickory bows love the video
Thanks Michael.
Loved watching the video my only critique would be straightening the curve in the top with some heat but it still turned out very well and is a perfect size for the little lady in the video
GREAT VIDEO! Awesome seeing people working with there hands (not sad the band saw didn't work)
true craftsman are few and far between now days. I look forward to seeing more on your channel.
I'm really liking this. I've always wanted to do a classic old school bow. Will definitely be saving this for the future!
Good luck. Bow building is so satisfying.
Can u use shellac and then polyurethane instead of tung oil
I like..your bows... whou can I get one?
Well done... love the craftsmanship.... Bravo !
I admire your skills. You’ve put together a really nice work shop.
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12:26 lol funny kid. Very good video. Always impressed by your willingness to tackle anything.
You kinda look like a viking with the godly beard
haha thanks AC. Did you end up making a bow?
you sir are an amazing craftsman, love the bend of a wood bow limb during tillering the bow turned out great thanks for the video
Awesome job buddy watched this video by accident and will never regret it.
Hope you watch more, by accident. Cheers Brett!
Thanks, it was entertaining and I think I can have a go now. Much appreciated
Man, you have a lot of stuff in that shop...I like it 🙂
Beautiful bow. Thank you so much for letting us into your shop and sharing your knowledge. God bless and have a blessed Christmas.
Thank you Mark. It’s our pleasure
Very informative. I appreciate the perspective of using a less than perfect stave.
Steam bend that limb and get it straight. It will tiller better and you will get better energy distribution over the length of the bow. I would also suggest getting a draw knife with some weight and backbone to it. Mine is almost 3" from edge to spine. I build my bows out of osage orange and this knife slices through like butter. Made my first bow in 1982.
Brace height should never be more than 6” above the handle - called the
Howard Hill said if a str a straight end American Longbow is six feet between the bow nocks the max fistmele no more than six inches. The problem with using oil on a self bow is that it softens and weakens the wood
Cells and overtime it will reduce the weight of the bow.
Ja,ein wirklich schöner Bogen!!! Der Tramp den keiner fängt.!
Thanks for the golf ball idea💡
I know this was long ago, but you should do a checkering on the handle, that 100 % tung oil is the one that I use after carving or checkering gun stocks, normally from 7 to 9 coats depends on how much shine I want.
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Very cool! My wife worked with Kirk at Cromwell, it would be cool if he ran the class again. Small World... perusing some bushcraft videos, just stumbled upon this.
Beautiful work
Excelente video man. I love your craftsmanship and presentation. Great job!
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Most enjoyable! Thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching Tim!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge of wood working it always blows me away at how much work is involved
Hey great video. I'm over In the UK and currently on my 3rd hickory bow. Makes a great bow wood, but one thing I would like to emphasize is how bloody tough this wood is. It will blunt your tools and make you work damn hard. I started with the cheap red oak bow build we've all seen a couple of years ago and hickory is like working one of the terminators legs down into a bow compared to that.
That is a beautiful thing. Very cool
What a good video 👍👍👍
Thanks for watching.
I really enjoy building flat bows. All I have available to me locally is Persimmon. I need to order a stave of Hickory and give it a try. Great video, I enjoyed it.
@David Rutherford I haven't found it that hard to work, perhaps it's the variety we have here in the Texas Hill Country.
That's awesome bro
Excellent Craftsmanship Fella' Nice to watch you making the Bow from Start to finish. Tom Scotland.
Thanks Tom.
Those are some of the nicest fades I’ve seen on a stick bow.
I have a ton of English Black Walnut I am looking to do something with. How does walnut work as a material choice?