Author: John W. StaggPublisher:
ISBN: 9780993273315
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Bow Making and Repair
Author: John W. StaggPublisher:
ISBN: 9780993273315
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 249
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Bows and Bow Makers
Author: William Charles RetfordPublisher:
ISBN: 9781900306126
Category : Stringed instruments, Bowed
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Tool Making for Bow Makers
Author: Anthony DiMambroPublisher:
ISBN: 9781715807924
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book is full of detailed plans and procedures on how to make over two dozen different bow making tools and jigs. Each tool is presented in detail with high quality diagrams, dimensions, and procedures. This manual should prove to be a useful resource and great place to start for those bow makers new to tool making.
The Art of Bow Making
Author: Joseph KunPublisher: Wappingers Falls, N.Y. ; Ottawa : Regh-Kun
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
The German Bow
Author: Bruce BabbittPublisher:
ISBN: 9780578564722
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
German Bow Making
The Hill Bow Makers
Author: John MilnesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780954970291
Category : Violin bows
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Traditional Bowyer's Handbook
Author: Clay C. HayesPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781548762810
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
I can't really explain my attraction to the bow and arrow. I can't explain the pull of a camp fire either, or the ocean, or the open hills where you can see forever. It's just there. These things are in all of us I think, some vestige of our primitive past buried so deep in our genome as to be inseparable from what it is to be human. What we think of as civilization is a new experiment in the eyes of Father Time. Experts say that humans have been around for some fifty thousand years. We've been carrying the bow for maybe five thousand (atlatls and spears before that), and pushing the plow for maybe two thousand. We have been hunters forever. We are built to run, to pursue big game on the open savannas, to kill and eat them. With the dwindling of the Pleistocene mega fauna, mammoths and such, the bow became more important and indeed helped to make us who we are today. It still holds that attraction, same as the hearth. When I was a kid I would make crude bows from green plum branches, big at one end and small at the other. A discarded hay string would serve as a bowstring. My arrows were fat and unfletched and would scarcely fly more than a few yards, usually tumbling over in midair. The small creatures around our home were plenty safe. When I was about 12 or so my brother brought me two old Ben Person recurves he'd found at a yard sale. One was a short bow, probably no more than 48 inches and the other was more of a standard size. They both drew about 50 lbs if I recall. That fall happened to be a good year for cottontails around our little farm and I spent countless hours walking the fields and shooting at them as they busted from underfoot. Although I'd get several shots a day I never did hit one on the fly but I remember that fall fondly nonetheless. The pleasure of jumping rabbits and seeing the feathered shaft streaking toward them was a thrill I've never forgotten. I made my first "real" bow when I was in high school, after getting a copy of the Traditional Bowyers Bible in the mail (more on this in a moment). My first bow, a decrowned mulberry flatbow, broke within about 10 shots. The second held together quite well and is probably still around somewhere and capable of shooting an arrow, though it would probably draw about 70lbs. When I first started making bows I used the woods I had close at hand; mulberry, common persimmon, red maple, white cedar, etc. I'd probably made more than a dozen bows of various woods before I ever saw a piece of Osage. People often ask me where they can find a bow stave and, invariably, I tell them to use what they have close by. No matter where you live, you'll have something near that will make a bow. Go cut it down and get started. This book is an attempt to share some of what I've learned over my years of bow making. The Traditional Bowyers Bible series, as mentioned earlier, is still a great source of information. Why write another book on making wood bows you might ask? The simple answer is that there are so many ways of doing and explaining things. There are still unanswered questions and we'll cover many of them here. We will cover all of the most frequently asked questions, and lay out a simple plan that should guide you through the entire process, from finding a stave to stringing your bow and shooting your first arrow. Some of what you'll find here, you'll find nowhere else.
The Traditional Bowyers Encyclopedia
Author: Dan BertalanPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1628730129
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Expert bowhunter and archery traditionalist Dan Bertalan has compiled the most complete bowmaking text available today. By traveling coast to coast and consulting America’s top bowmakers, he has gathered the best information on how to build your own recurve longbow, improve your hunting skills, care properly for a bow, and more. Including descriptive photographs, diagrams, a complete glossary of terms, and reviews of particular bows that include draw/force measurements and hand-shot arrow speeds, this illuminating book will provide hunters, collectors, and others with invaluable insight into this specialized world. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for hunters and firearms enthusiasts. We publish books about shotguns, rifles, handguns, target shooting, gun collecting, self-defense, archery, ammunition, knives, gunsmithing, gun repair, and wilderness survival. We publish books on deer hunting, big game hunting, small game hunting, wing shooting, turkey hunting, deer stands, duck blinds, bowhunting, wing shooting, hunting dogs, and more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
A Bow Maker's Notebook
Author: John RiggsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781520536033
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This Notebook was written in the spirit of Primitive Archery: With the materials I had to work with... a pen, paper, and years of accumulated knowledge. It is not like some other "How to build a bow" books" as I go in depth into bow theory, the properties of different bow woods, and designs. It is simply written, but very in-depth. This book contains three project bows that reflect a great many techniques: A simple D bow made from a stave, a rawhide backed red oak longbow, as well as a sinew backed gull wing horse bow. Along with the project bows you will find experience, tips and tricks which will help you through your journey as bow makers. Thank you, John Riggs
The Bowmakers of the Peccatte Family
Author: Paul ChildsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780965178815
Category : Stringed instrument bows
Languages : en
Pages : 286
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