Any bowyers?

[hfm]

i buy the Primitive Archery mags regularly. some of those guys have dug up osage fence posts about a century old and made good bows from them. i can't WAIT...

Id love to see what you come up with also!!
Please share any you want to show
Oh that scaper showed and its from austria and beautiful!

 

[armedoldhippy]

damned hard to beat european steel, the older the better. i buy most tools these days in antique stores and flea markets...

 

[hfm]

damned hard to beat european steel, the older the better. i buy most tools these days in antique stores and flea markets...

You are 100% on point with that!
Laughing but then id have to put new handles on and sharpen them j/k

 

[hfm]

Post oak

 

[Bush Dr]

Nice work

 

[hfm]

Nice work

Thank you

 

[SolarLogos]

Here are a couple I made for my kids when they were 5 and 8 years old. These are brother and sister bows, both from the same red oak tree. Bamboo backed from some bamboo I found growing. I used an endless knot loop making the strings. The recurve is a girls bow, tillered to 25 lbs pull and the other 35 lbs. They were initially 70 and 85 lbs, it was a lot of work tillering it down that far.
Not a very good artist, but I always put our family crest on the bows I made.

 

[Bush Dr]

Abalone shell makes a stunning arrow pass

 

[armedoldhippy]

some really nice looking bows shown here, thanks! i wish i had gotten onto the "primitive" side about 40 years earlier than i did.

 

[CharlesU Farley]

Post oak
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Not into archery and know essentially nothing about it. But that bow you created out of a hunk of wood is a work of art !

Respect.

 

[hfm]

Not into archery and know essentially nothing about it. But that bow you created out of a hunk of wood is a work of art !

Respect.

Thank you

 

[hfm]

Here are a couple I made for my kids when they were 5 and 8 years old. These are brother and sister bows, both from the same red oak tree. Bamboo backed from some bamboo I found growing. I used an endless knot loop making the strings. The recurve is a girls bow, tillered to 25 lbs pull and the other 35 lbs. They were initially 70 and 85 lbs, it was a lot of work tillering it down that far.
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Those are finished well!Good job! Do your kids shoot alot?Do you make any for yourself?

 

[hfm]

some really nice looking bows shown here, thanks! i wish i had gotten onto the "primitive" side about 40 years earlier than i did.

Gosh you and me both friend!

 

[hfm]

Abalone shell makes a stunning arrow pass

thats a great idea.Some of those finishing touches will have to be down the road

 

[hfm]

It starts!

 

[Timj]

Very nice bows @SolarLogos . My first ever bow blank is just roughed out and clamped to a drying board right now. Nice Morel @hfm .

 

[hfm]

Very nice bows @SolarLogos . My first ever bow blank is just roughed out and clamped to a drying board right now. Nice Morel @hfm .

Thank you
Please fell free to share your pictures as you go.

 

[acespicoli]

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Bamboo – Golden Witch

Hi Russ, The [A+]cane arrived today in great shape. It’s beautiful stuff! Thanks for what you do and for making this great material available for us to work with. -Dave G. (USA) That's a …

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Maybe some of this helps ?
I have some much better video try to upload it somewhere

 

[Timj]

Lie-Nielsen Toolworks

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Bamboo – Golden Witch

Hi Russ, The [A+]cane arrived today in great shape. It’s beautiful stuff! Thanks for what you do and for making this great material available for us to work with. -Dave G. (USA) That's a …

www.goldenwitch.com

Maybe some of this helps ?
I have some much better video try to upload it somewhere

That's a pretty elaborate process. Very cool. I'll stick with something basic myself and possibly advance if I don't impale myself while tillering my first self bow.

 

[hfm]

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www.woodcraft.com

Bamboo – Golden Witch

Hi Russ, The [A+]cane arrived today in great shape. It’s beautiful stuff! Thanks for what you do and for making this great material available for us to work with. -Dave G. (USA) That's a …

www.goldenwitch.com

Maybe some of this helps ?
I have some much better video try to upload it somewhere

Thank you for sharing
I will check those out for sure
I appriciate you!