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 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!
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 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.
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.
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!
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. ✨🎡✨✌😊👍🐱🐉
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 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!
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.
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
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
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!
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 😊✌️❤️
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!!
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.
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.
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 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!
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.
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!
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 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!!
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Dude, you have some serious skills. You make it look so easy that I want to go out and buy all of those specialty tools and join you. Do you make stuff and sell it or just do it for the love of woodworking? Regardless, I would love to have your skills and I can only imagine how many years you have spent learning all of this stuff. Love watching you make things and would love to have a beer with yoy and ask you a million questions. Lol just freaking WOW !! Good for you !
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.
Hi, I was just thinking about my Shinto rasp and how well it would be to getting the shape that you need and low and behold you pull out a Shinto rasp of your own, an awesome tool well suited to this type of work
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...?
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.
I was taught that when you get it tillered and sanded roughly, put on a slightly too long string and put 100 arrows through it on 8/10 draw before you make it pretty. It either breaks, or develops set you need to fix.
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!
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.
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!
Crystal clear and honest. Very well done.
Thank you!
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
What a beautiful bow! Thanks so much for all the minutia specific to Hickory Bows, Awesome!!!
You bet!
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.
Well done...
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!
I admire your talent I hope to be as gifted with tools one day as you are
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 🏵️💫
This is splendid. The way you visualised how it would emerge from the 'wavey' hickory stave 😎. Thank you. 😊😊
Thanks for watching!
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 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!
Great bow, and great video! Making them with you back in the day was an absolute blast.
It really was. Thanks D-Rock!
I really like the way he did his tips, the leaf make it good ,good dezine
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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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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!
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.
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.
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!
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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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
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شكراً لكم ولشرحكم للطريقة بشكل مُبَسَّط ووافي
You make it seem like a meditation to make the bow. It is beautiful, great job!
Great video! Thanks for sharing your experience and your enthusiasm shows through. Good job!👍🏼👍🏼
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.
Excelente vídeo de confeção de um arco. Parabéns!!
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 to watch how a real flatbow is made, I'm impressed by your skills with woodwork (and iron as well). Thanks for sharing.
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 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!
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!!!
Aahhh. I love the moment a bowyer discovers the Shinto rasp. ❤️
Beautiful manufacturing process. I enjoyed watching it. Greetings from Buenos Aires.
A beautiful piece of craftsmanship, thank you for sharing!
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!
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.
Beautiful bow. Great build. Nice shooting. I am impressed 👍💪💯
I am also a creative enthusiast, but I admire you for being highly creative,👍
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
Excellent workmanship!!
Thank you very much!
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!
Do you use a moisture probe, I heard Hickorey is phenomenal at 6 percent
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
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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A very Unhappy Person Would🤣
A perfectionist!!! I'm Loving it.... 😊
You Sir, are awesome. Gonna binge on your videos now 🙏
Very informative. I appreciate the perspective of using a less than perfect stave.
Well done... love the craftsmanship.... Bravo !
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.
Beautiful bow, awesome job. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks JJJ!
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.
It only looks amazing, to really tell I would need to test it myself for a few years.
Those are some of the nicest fades I’ve seen on a stick bow.
Beautiful, I love the asymmetry
Thank you! Cheers 88!
Great looking and shooting bow. Thanks for sharing. I hope to make my first one.
Amazing work ! Congratulations for your know-how !
Thank you.
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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
😁🙏
WOW.... I'm impressed and haven't anything else to say. A true craftsman!!!😁
Well said haha
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.
This entire process is fascinating. Thank you for bringing us along for the ride. Learned a lot as always. 💪🏻😁
Thank you Brother!
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Best instructional video so far .. I will use it as a reference
Awesome job buddy watched this video by accident and will never regret it.
Hope you watch more, by accident. Cheers Brett!
I admire your skills. You’ve put together a really nice work shop.
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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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Thank you for sharing your knowledge of wood working it always blows me away at how much work is involved
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.
Excelente video man. I love your craftsmanship and presentation. Great job!
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You kinda look like a viking with the godly beard
haha thanks AC. Did you end up making a bow?
12:26 lol funny kid. Very good video. Always impressed by your willingness to tackle anything.
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Very good
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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
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.
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'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?
Dude, you have some serious skills. You make it look so easy that I want to go out and buy all of those specialty tools and join you. Do you make stuff and sell it or just do it for the love of woodworking? Regardless, I would love to have your skills and I can only imagine how many years you have spent learning all of this stuff. Love watching you make things and would love to have a beer with yoy and ask you a million questions. Lol just freaking WOW !! Good for you !
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.
Man, you have a lot of stuff in that shop...I like it 🙂
Hi, I was just thinking about my Shinto rasp and how well it would be to getting the shape that you need and low and behold you pull out a Shinto rasp of your own, an awesome tool well suited to this type of work
I appreciate how you used hand tools for about everything. Great video!
Cheers Chris!
After I finish my Guillemot stripped sea kayak, that is my next project for my grandson, thanks for sharing
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...?
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.
great job sir, looking forward to your next bowmaking video !!
Beautiful work bro!!
I’m not in bow crafting, but enjoyed every minute of it, thanks!!
Thank you for watching!
Thanks for the golf ball idea💡
Thanks, it was entertaining and I think I can have a go now. Much appreciated
Nice job on that bow.Hickory makes a strong hard hitting bow that will last for many years. I like to put a stain on mine to make them look nicer.
Wish I had it in my area. best I have access to are red oak boards...
I was taught that when you get it tillered and sanded roughly, put on a slightly too long string and put 100 arrows through it on 8/10 draw before you make it pretty. It either breaks, or develops set you need to fix.
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I was taught the same thing, this video was helpful in addressing the faults in a bow. ruclips.net/video/dQw4w9WgXcQ/видео.html