Holy cow, look at your huge pile of bow wood!! I am so jealous.

Touch the wood, feel the wood, be the wood. Good vid

@KB-gn6rh

4 жыл бұрын

I dont wanna be Split

I took one of Ted's classes. Well worth it, thanks Ted!

Love it, keep up the good work.

yes , I remember those days as well, good times

Great and what amazing wood!

So beautiful...

Thanks! Didn't know the precise characteristics of each type of wood. Greetings.

true art

Great video

wow... I want to learn your craft I've always loved woodworking but this is beautiful

your english is better than some people from right here in the U.S. Peter, thanks for the info on the bench , I will look into that.

you are very welcome , glad you enjoyed it

Nice bow !!!!

thanks for the video

Awesome I love it

Can't wait to make my 1st bow

Thank you for the Video, this is a great pice of yew. :)

Im working on making Viking bows on my channel here soon. You video has been very intresting.

Keep at it , make the best of what you have

Nice video

Good Job

NICE!!! I would so Love to make my own bows!!! Thanks 4 Sharing bud.. P.S .. May take you up on the offer sometime! My Wife & I need to get out and do some Travelling. Cheers

Depending on the wood I use steam or boil the wood to shape for a deflex / reflex best to sinew back to retain that shape or it may pull out from use

You bet , I love working the wood and finding it as much as I love the bow

On yew I tend to leave the sap wood back with the heartwood belly , 1/3 rd sap to 2/3 rds heart, sapwood is good in tension and heartwood good in compression .

coool film!!!!!

Thank you , working on a video for more on tillering .

good one!

thank you

when I was a kid (no internet times) we made bows with friend from sticks, it was fun :)

Thank you so much for your help! any idea where i can get one of those draw knives you used to "debark" the stave?

Hello! Great video! The use of sapwood instead of heartwood (at least so it seems) does obey a certain flexibility criterion?

Raptor all my respect. I wish I you could be my teacher! Here in Argentina is incredibly difficult to find someone with experience in building bows. I've been looking for someone for the last years with no luck.

@user-mb4se6km5p

Жыл бұрын

Did you ever get to start building bows?

@felathar1985

Жыл бұрын

@@user-mb4se6km5p I started but I had to stop doing it because I couldn't find anyone to teach me.

thank you for the reply :)

3 years is a hell of a long time. :O

Classic beauty. May I ask does one keep the top of the tree of the wood as the top of the bough of he bow? Would love to take your course but you are a bit far. Any fellow craftsmen or women in he U.K. you would recommend. Thank you for your clip.

Your pocketknife can still be your most valuable possession, and you just have to get out there and have fun and your "childhood" will still be there

nice bow

Man, yew have serious skills

I was just looking for a weekend-week long project. There's a dead Aspen I haven't cut down...will that work?

what are the tools you used called? cause iv'e made bows from silver birch, but i used wood chisels, a rasp, wood files and sand/glasspaper, but this takes a long time and it looks like the tools you used do a better job.

where can I get some for that wood so I can make one

how do you string the bow? like how do you get the bow to stick to the wooden part?

What are the names of the two tools you used? One was just a flat piece of metal and the other you used while tillering.

can you use a much thinner branch than that to start?

I want to work for you. Dream job for sure!

nOT AT THIS TIME , HAPPY TO HAVE YOU SIGN UP FOR A BOWBUILDING CLASS ON OUR WEB PAGE HOWEVER

this may seem weird but splitting that wood kinda looked fun

thanck you

wich is the best wood......soft wood(spruce) or hard wood like maple......tks.....nice vid

1) how long was stave seasoned for 2) what wood 3) would love to see more in depth on tillering great video loved it

@barrakodahi5069

2 жыл бұрын

It’s yew wood

How do you dry wood with out it splitting? I've tried it and it always slits on me.

thought those wedges were super hot for a second!

This is wonderful, I would like to learn to do this slowly. But I have two questions = 1. Does the draw knife need to be exceptionally razor sharp, like woodworking chisels for example ? 2. Can I use an electric wheel to shape it very roughly, before the draw knife ? I mean go from axe --> to electric wheel --> to draw knife

@mac2k2020

6 жыл бұрын

1 no but it is very subjective, it depends on the wood and the phase you're at , for chasing a ring some prefer a dull blade so as not to skip and violate the ring that would be your back, this is only relevant if you work with wood that require you to chase the ring , osage, locust, etc.. white wood does not need that , you remove the sapwood and you 're done 2 you can use power tools but where's the fun in that ? totally up to you

So when you cut a part of a tree , you need to wait 3 years to dry and then start building the bow ?

@LabGecko

9 жыл бұрын

Any kind of woodwork normally begins with a drying or seasoning time, _especially_ if the wood has been transported from one region to another. The wood you get from box stores has been dried too, but usually it's done in a kiln (badly). The result from _not_ drying is that as you work or when you finish the wood will warp and twist as the weather changes with the seasons.

Yes you can , some early bows were made from limbs

hey, quick question. i am getting into bow making. how do you get a reflex deflex from a straight stave? i think i have some idea, but i better take it from an expert. Thanks, SS2

from what is string made off?

What size draw knife is that?

yes

Tools: -Draw knife -Spokeshave

what i would do to have A: a workshop like that B: nice wood to work with living in australia and only being 18 you can only do so much

I live on the Navajo reservation how can I order some of your Staves

Feel free to email me at the store , happy to help you out , happy to come to Argentina as well but thats a long drive.

You bet!

what about a recurve?

what kind of wood is this bow

where do you get your wood?

Sorry, i'm from mexico, and i don't know all the english, can you sayme the names of trees than i can use to make a bows ??? Please, 🙇

what kind of wood is that?

Name of wood that u use ????

He says it in the video, Pacific Yew.

Where did u get the wood

I wanna make my own recurve bow.

What is the cost of this bow?? All cost with image. Please. And where is ur shop.

What kind of tree is it?

only available at raptor archery web site

To those asking what tool he was using: It is a draw knife. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawknife

you have a store. I would come if i could

question? what kinda wood is the best for bow making? thank you

@skylla7452

9 жыл бұрын

Yew

What was the name of the tool he used to shave the wood?

@zaywave4247

7 жыл бұрын

Bryan Board A draw knife

@andrewgrajeda3349

5 жыл бұрын

and the one at the end that removed less wood was a spokeshave I believe

Can you make me one of those bows?

which kind tree?

How much for a dried stave?

what was the name of wood

Qual o nome desta madeira, obrigado ..

are thay for sale ?

What type of wood could be used in Australia?

@TheSunnyTrails

6 жыл бұрын

If you can wait long enough spotted gum will work but it’s so hard to work!

Can i make a bow and then dry it ?

can you use bodark? if so how well does it do?

@rogerward3185

9 жыл бұрын

I don't know if you've found an answer to your question yet, but my understanding is that "bodark" is a corruption of "bois d'arc," french for "bow wood" if that helps.

What wood should I use for a self recurve bow?

@Master...deBater

8 жыл бұрын

+Miles Chowaniec Yew or Osage.

So, I came here because I made a bow in the summer and it "bowed" a little bit. I think it is because I brought it to my godmoms house to store and my room gets really hot even though i tried to store it in the closet. Is there any way to "unbow" it? I dont keep the bow strung. However, I was curious if stringing it for a day would correct the "bowing" because it bends slightly the opposite way that it should when it is strung. If that makes any sense whatsoever. Please ask me questions if im not clear. Thanks.

@immortalscapegoat6548

9 жыл бұрын

lol.. :p I know... my archery vocabulary is not very elaborate. lol

@milky6191

9 жыл бұрын

Did you season the wood before making the bow?

@mac2k2020

8 жыл бұрын

+Ashley Burch if it bent away from you that could actually be a good thing , if it bent toward you, you just lost some performance whatever it was you never store a wooden bow in a closet standing up

@caseyb1346

8 жыл бұрын

It is a good thing for a bow to bend away from you when it is unstrung. You are very lucky if a bow you made did that on its own. Most bows do the opposite, they take 'set' and don't fire as good as when they were brand new.

3 YEARS?!?! i was hoping 3 WEEKS

Do you Sell bows?

I made a mini bow out of laburnum wood today its seem a perfect wood

What's the name of the tool he's using to carve the wood?

@RaptorArchery

8 жыл бұрын

+KZread Speedruns That is called a drawknife

what tools did you use

@kevingolden734

8 жыл бұрын

Draw knife

como obter o molde da crossbow

Are there places that dried yew logs can be bought?