Bow Building Tutorials

Bow diagrams .

feeds@yuku.com (indygoman) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:20:20 GMT

Cant remember where I found this but I thought be helpful....If anyone else has some please post them .thanks

dirty fiberglass question

feeds@yuku.com (aurox) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:25:52 GMT

so i have a nice american elm sapling bow at 45 lbs. bent it too far on the scale after over a year of hunting and stump shooting, in the middle of the back is a broked sliver or whatever its called, anyway i cant bear to toss the bow, never worked with fiberglass, and would like to try to see what happens, is this the place to ask how to apply one layer or is another forum more appropriate? i had a hard time finding one,

so far i figure thinly apply the resin and glass and not let...

making an archers thumb ring with a silver spoon

feeds@yuku.com (fiddler49) — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:04:17 GMT

The other day I had a spoon in my pocket and it felt just like one one my thumb rings so I thought why not
make a thumb ring from a spoon. I chose a sterling silver spoon that was big enough to hold one of my
horn thumb rings. After drilling a half inch hole I rat tail filed it out oval. I keep the size smaller than would fit
so I could hammer out the band on a steel mandrel. Now I'm not a...

first osage self build

feeds@yuku.com (Mossanimal) — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:50:28 GMT

Howdy folks... I'm new here to Paleoplanet. Heard good things about it from folks on another forum. I've got a thread going on Stickbow detailing my first osage self bow build. I started it from a sawn stave given to me by a friend. The wood is about 10 months old and I've been working it down to the back with an axe and Bowyers Edge. Just got my drawknife in the mail.... just starting to play with it.
The bow will be 62" long and will have recurved tips and I might...

doubt and distrust: wondering to continue

feeds@yuku.com (Raithial) — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:27:47 GMT

I've been given a couple of bows from a friend of mine who's been a bowyer for some time, and who has produced a number of proper bows already.
I've got 3 logs, drying, and a couple of experimental bows, that (in his eyes) failed his demands.
Right now, I'm working up a "failed" English longbow, which has a couple of cracks in it. (do note: these are vertical cracks, and those are very small and to the side of the bow, rather than right in the middle, also,...

bow woods

feeds@yuku.com (snowarcher123789) — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:27:06 GMT

Hi I was wondering if staghorn sumac could make A bow? Also my bow project right now is a 31" elm bow. I have no sinew so would leather backing work? Thanks

bow making the wood to the bow for nobbies

feeds@yuku.com (tootillini) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:10:29 GMT

here is the best web site outher than this one for a red oak bow hope you enjoy http://www.geocities.com/salampsio/oak.htm

Hi everyone newbie here in need of HELP!!!

feeds@yuku.com (bowaddiction) — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:05:44 GMT

I just started my 2nd bow, hickory diamond shape bow. Have a tight tiller string on now and pushing 65 lbs or more at 20 inches.
The problem is my hadle is to thin 3/4 wide and 1" thick. I noticed bending in the handle ,,, to much I think.
Also the bow limbs seem...

Added part for splicing billets

feeds@yuku.com (French Crow) — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:31:28 GMT

Recently I was considering a pair of sapwood+heartwood hickory pick handles in a hardware store. They could have done a cool longbow but one has not enough heartwood.
The problem was they were a bit short for a longbow and, furthermore, a classical splice eats some length (the splice's length itself). So I had this idea : what about a splice with an internal added part ? It should work as well as a classical splice.

Tutorials and disappearing photos

feeds@yuku.com (fiddler49) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:00:55 GMT

I was checking out a tutorial in the beginner knapping forum and noticed all the photos gone on that particular one. I've seen this before over time. I guess if you delete photos from your photo bucket account, any of those pics that happen to be in a thread or more important, a tutorial will disappear. The pics in many of these tutorials are as important as the text and should be a permanent part of the tutorial. I think the tutorials are a vital part of PaleoPlanet and the degradation...

Tutorials and disappearing photos

feeds@yuku.com (fiddler49) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:00:55 GMT

Photo Guide to Bow Wood Gathering

feeds@yuku.com (Adam Keiper) — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:06:06 GMT

I thought I'd add a photo guide on cutting bow wood. These pictures are from an osage cutting excursion I made last weekend. After hopping out of my truck and hauling an armload of tree felling gear down into a creek bottom, I set out to look for a decent osage tree or two. Typically, only one in perhaps 50 trees is straight, clean, and long enough to consider an entire trunk suitable for bow wood. One in 20 trees might offer usable staves on half the trunk, or have flaws mild enough...

Establishing a Stave Curriculum - An Approach to Turning a Stave Into a Bow

feeds@yuku.com (toxophileken) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 23:29:20 GMT

This isn't a thread about technique. I have been thinking about some of the approaches and ways of looking at the process of turning a stave into a bow, and I thought that since it has been useful and interesting to me, that it might help other folks as well... I don't claim to be much of a bowyer; but one thing I may have going for me is my ability break things down and put them into a semblance of order - that and still being close...

Reworking a Sluggish Board Bow

feeds@yuku.com (toxophileken) — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:31:43 GMT

The local archery shop gave a guy my phone number. His name was Phil (not our Greenchicken, obviously), and he had a bow he got in a mule trade involving a black powder rifle. The bow had been a raffle prize at one of the mountain man rendezvous that the man likes to attend. Due to a motorcycle accident, his shoulder gives him some trouble, and the bow was too much for him to shoot comfortably. He wanted me to scrape it down to where he could shoot it. I told him he could easily do it...

Great Reference Book

feeds@yuku.com (hopsononefoot) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:45:17 GMT

Great book that lays everything out simple and easy to understand. Rather old and hard to locate nowdays but full of all kinds of info that may be useful to the beginning bowyer.

http://www.stavacademy.co.uk/mimir/archeryessentials.htm

Links To Help You With Your First Bow(s)

feeds@yuku.com (toxophileken) — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:28:21 GMT

Welcome to Paleo Planet. Here are just a few links to some of the useful articles available in the Archery Reference Center here.

Read them, get yourselves some boards with the correct grain, and/or some tree staves, and commence to making shavings...!

Selecting Board Staves

Your First Wooden Bow

Applying a Raw-hide Backing (From Iliana's Euromeeting, Photostory)

feeds@yuku.com (123Sharo) — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 21:53:38 GMT

Let me tell you shortly about our friend Gancho.
He is a man, who knows how to do the things right. When you look at him he is never in hurry, but he manages to finish everything in time and so well that nobody can do it better. And this always with a smile on his face! Btw, he is the one, who we owe big thanks for the luxury shower box he build for us (Ill show more pics in the other thread).

From all the bows we made in our group, his bows are the best shooters. They are...

Adjusting A Twisted Limb by Scraping/Shaving

feeds@yuku.com (toxophileken) — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:13:39 GMT

I always seem to get this mixed up... I have many books that address it, and have looked at some posts about it... For some reason I have a mental block or something on this one...

When you have a limb twisting or tracking off towards limb side A, which nock do you deepen to help correct the problem? The nock groove on limb side A, or the nock groove on limb side B?

The limb is crooked towards side A. You want to move it back towards side...

Steps or Phases In Learning To Tiller

feeds@yuku.com (toxophileken) — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:25:52 GMT
Pre-Tillering

During this phase, the not yet bowyer is learning to use his hand tools and power tools to shape wood, and how to turn logs into staves.

Initial attempts at getting a bow in this phase fail before the stave even gets to the floor bending stage, from a mind boggling array of causes, including: Wood not appropriate, Wood not dry enough, Wood too dry, Wood not sound (cracks, knots, bug holes, rot, etc), Mistakes with tools, etc. etc.

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What is the difference in long and short string tillering?

feeds@yuku.com (Quest for fire) — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:33:36 GMT
Can you use one or the other? Is there a definite system as to when you use one or the other.