Excellent! I've made many of both recurves, longbows, and flatbows. I still enjoy shooting them all. Thank you for keeping the spirit of the wood bow alive.

@DreamcraftBows

10 ай бұрын

Thanks! Each design is exciting and have certain advantages :) I do my best 👊

Great video Dream. For me the big deciding factor is string alignment. I’ve ruined plenty of recurves by trying them on staves with too much twist

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

I fell you, string alignment tends to be problematic... Thanks for the comment!

Your one heck of a Bowyer my brother Absolutely beautiful bows very well done love your nock work Especially the horn work on your recerve there perfect splicing of the horn to wood an curve to the tips 👍👍

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you brother appreciate it!

What i love about the longbow design is that it‘s amazingly simple and very old. It‘s been used since the stone age. Also you don‘t waste as much bow wood (there can be made two narrow longbows from a wide Møllegabet stave).

we need more videos you do a good job 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Great video thanks for all the cool content :D

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate it!!!

I love the look of recurves, but generally I need a long bow to shoot comfortably as I have a very long draw length.

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

Feel you!

@rblackmore1445

2 жыл бұрын

In my experience revcurved bows seem to offer a much higer draw length compared to long bows. Most trad long bows seem to be around the 29" draw which makes no sense to me, because most of the asiatic recurves i have are below 53" in lenght and they all offer a 33" draw length. Go figure....

@malachimatcho7583

2 жыл бұрын

There are plenty of asiatic recurve bows with draw lengths of 32-36 inches.

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

@@malachimatcho7583 Yes there are, but in the video I'm focused on wood selfbows. Asiatic bows are made with use of horn and sinew

@malachimatcho7583

2 жыл бұрын

@@DreamcraftBows Ahhh.. Okay. I now have a clear grasp of the situation. 😁

Great video, I prefer recurve . It fits me and nice groups too!

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you sir! Great!

Brillant video. Nice work too!

@DreamcraftBows

9 ай бұрын

Thank you 💪

I like both recurve and longbow

Very nice my friend Excellent information. 👍

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you like it man!

Thank you

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

Your'e welcome!

You can see why the longbow was the most popular weapon in medieval times, recurves would've been far more expensive and fragile too

@DreamcraftBows

10 ай бұрын

That's right 👊

What’s a bow called when it’s a recurve combined with a panobscot design ? Wind warrior max p is on example from white wolf archery. It looks like a recurve bow but has the second bow attached like in a panobscot design

Muy bueno asi me gustan los arcos de ese modelo asi de madera natural pero asi de esa forma

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you my friend!

Longbows are easier to make than recurves but I think every bow has a purpose. Why else would the ancients make them the way they did? Man it would be cool to talk to some of them and actually see how they did all this!

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

Agree! Each design used by our ancestors hase the purpose. Most definitely!

@Susikohmelo

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Long/flatbows are generally the bang for the buck bows of the family. They may not be very powerful, they may not be very fast but they are very cost effective and easy to make. It is quite literally a stick and string and although it's only half as efficient as a Manchurian bow you still do not want to get hit by one of those. Half a nuclear bomb is still half a nuclear bomb hehe. Recurved bows, although better in every other sense, are extremely expensive and time consuming to make. Composite bows require a master bowyer and they can take up to two years just to dry and be ready to shoot. (Also I'd like to give a shout out to reflex bows! Although they too are composite bows and weaker than recurves, they are much easier to maintain. Recurve bows need twist correction from time to time, more or less depending on how aggressive the design is. Reflex bows are self correcting and require very little maintenance which makes them perfect for long expeditions such as the expansive campaigns done by the Mongolians. That's right! Mongols used reflex bows not recurves. Most Mongolian style bows today are actually late Mongolian bows, they adapted the Manchurian design in the very recent years. But their early bows used during Ghengis Khan's reign were reflex bows, the Chinese actually borrowed their design because they were unable to keep up with the fast moving troops of the Mongolians)

@kusukacolaylowlee1611

2 жыл бұрын

@@Susikohmelo english longbowmen will beat mongolian archer anytime any day

@Susikohmelo

2 жыл бұрын

@@kusukacolaylowlee1611 I think it would be very hard to say, it's two very different military strategies. Would European quantity win over Asiatic quality? I don't really know. If you were making the comparison between a singular archer rather than a large army then obviously the Asiatic equipment would take the cake

@kusukacolaylowlee1611

2 жыл бұрын

@@Susikohmelo 100 longbow men vs 100 mongolian archer with horse! Ezpz!

I like that you shoot a longbow with khatra. One doesn't see that too often.

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

Agree with that!

Hey man, love the video. You should try more the long bow style! I'm currently working on a 'less long bow' 😂, an elm stave full of knots and with a natural reflex of almost 5 inches! But It's a pain in the neck to hold it steady on the tillering board, because it slips off every time I try to heave it back, how do you usually keep your bows still? As a faithful viewer i would like to challenge you by making a long bow with recurved tips, I don't think it is storically accurate, but still worth the experiment! Atb

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks bro! Yes I make those too rare... Sounds like an exciting project! Above my tillering tree I put (with clamp or screws) a piece of wood to keep a bow away from slipping. You can note it watching my bows being tillerred. Well thank you, I haven't made such a bow yet!

@Calios902

2 жыл бұрын

@@DreamcraftBows Great, looking forward to it then! I will try to build something similar for me, but unfortunately I have te tillering block fixed to the wall, i will try to figure out something with time, bye💪

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you and good luck!

@DanSantanaBows

2 жыл бұрын

I’m in favor of letting the bow wobble, you lose a lot of information by clamping it. Which way it leans tells you about which side is stiff and the dynamics of the bow. Many english bowyers use a round bow pivot specifically because it allows the bow to rock (see Del Cat’s channel, or my strap setup)

@Calios902

2 жыл бұрын

@@DanSantanaBows Hey there, thank you for the suggestion, your strap setup is spot on! I would like to make something similar, how did you build it? How can you hang the bow when previously strung? Anyway the biggest issue is trying to heave back a bow that is not perfectly straight, as an elb should ideally be, so it's relatively difficult to see where it could be stiff or not, just because the 'slipping off' the tiller could be determined by the asymmetry itself. I think I am going to make a post on PA sooner or later. Atb

I've broken Black Locust bow recently due to compression cracks. I'mstarting to dislike this bowwood. Maybe I should see someone's buildalong of a B.L. bow and how they prevent compression cracks from appearing. Great video as always.

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

Black locust takes a lot of skills to make a bow without any compression issues. But once you will tiller it successfully it can be very rewarding and sweet shooter. Thank you!

@jkre

2 жыл бұрын

Rounded back and flat belly help with that

I'm personally more of a longbow fan, but to each their own.

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍

The choice depends on the job...ex: hunt on wide open messa, a long bow with heavy arrows! In varied forest/ grassland areas,a recurve n medium weight arrows! In Sable palm n live oak forests either a " short bow "and 28" arrows, or a "stick bow" with 32" cedar ,four flight ,arrows! Just MHO..But, these are my tools for hunting n bowfishing! Thanks for sharing!! 🏹👍🧙‍♂️👍🏹

I don’t like English longbows at all. They are extremely inefficient which is why they needed such a high draw weight. The huge length meant the wood wasn’t under as much stress. I guess the rounded narrow limbs and high draw weights were both to help with that.

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

Appreciate your opinion!

As a junior bowyer, I want specialize in designs that give straight limb bows amazing power and reactivity compared to recurves. What do you think about hollow limb bows?

@gunarsmiezis9321

Жыл бұрын

The main reason the english had long streight bows is because its simpler to make them have high power, it takes more skill to make short recurve bows have the same power.

RECURVE 👍

What kind of wood is used?

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

Red oak, black locust, ash, yew and others

Long bow Thank yew

@DreamcraftBows

Жыл бұрын

💪💪

Long bow vs recurve....a recurve with static bends at the end is just a long bow that's been shortened.but can be braced the same as the longer bow.

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍

I prefer recurved tips

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍

I never was a big fan of the compound with all them technology stuff on it I'm more of a traditional Bow kind of guy

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍

If u never ride horse then choose longbow! For me i will chose adder crossbow!

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

👊👊👊

A longbow is a long bow, you can have a recurve longbow....

@tricksterjoy9740

11 ай бұрын

English longbow is a very specific type of bow. Referring to it as just a Longbow is entirely correct terminology, even though it’s preferred to say English longbow. For referring to other long bows, one would generally say “recurve longbow” or “compound longbow” though those aren’t technically correct terminologies. Among anyone who knows bows, layman terms are entirely correct unless your doing historical analysis.

longbows hand down.

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍

Ещё один, с умелыми руками, полез туда, где ничего не понимает :) Минус естественно!

longbows are made from yew and the brits claim they are the best best truth be told, yew is pretty bad wood for bows. Oak and Maple wood are far superior. They tougher, last longer and can withstand stronger pulls. Only advantage of longbow is that it was cheap and was everywhere. Its like your typical dager. Very bad weapon compared to sword but much cheaper then the expensive sword.

old material

@DreamcraftBows

2 жыл бұрын

Clips used in this video are from previous projects but the content is fresh