As a Cherokee and Cheyenne I have to have respect for this vid

@PrimitiveLifeways

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

UK here. Thanks for the history and detailed requirements to fashion such a fantastic bow.

Siyo unali'i! Sgi for this amazing video and for preserving our rich cultural history! I have been viewing your channel for many winters. Keep up the excellant work. Donadagohvi!

I start mine at 72 and make to fit,love the videos and help is always needed ,thanks

Wow. That came out super nice

Enjoy the videos and history. I’m sure I’m not the first to ask for an arrow building video. Keep up the great content!

Love the shorties 👍

Great video!

I’ve always avoided ones with nots I did learn something on this thank you. Also I’ve addressed flaws by backing my bows with snake skin and it also makes them very pretty

It's amazing that you can draw that short bow a full 20" and you end up with such little set. It really zings those beautiful arrows. I don't want to say too much, but I wish the Indigenous people still existed (in the same way they had existed for thousands of years) on this land mass

@ReasonAboveEverything

Жыл бұрын

Globalization ends up ruining the diversity on this planet.

Thank you sir, you are gentleman, a squire and a fantastic bowman. Personally I love short bows, being a longbowman in my youth (I am English) as is our tradition, but contrary to many thoughts, the short bow was used in England for game hunting by the peasants throughout the middle ages and before. I build my bows from waste materials, I would love to build a bow from Holly which was a common wood used in England for shorties. I am sure the method you describe above could work also. Thanks.

Ich werde nie so einen Bogen bauen, aber Deine Videos sind einsame Spitze....👍great!

Nicely done,I just finished a black locust bow! 52 inch

I really enjoy this channel ☺️

Make more videos !! I make fire hardened hickory Cherokee style bows. I loved this

@smcewen7

Жыл бұрын

How long do you fire cure them,until the stem stops coming out of the ends or what??

Some Cherokee warbows were made from black locust ash Hickory, red oak and they were over 70"inches

@severinevans346

Жыл бұрын

Interesting. Makes sense though longer bow longer draw more accuracy.

@Daylon91

Жыл бұрын

Yes he purposefully made the bow shorter as he explained in the video.

@severinevans346

Жыл бұрын

@@Daylon91 I know I didn't see it till after I made the comment

very nice bow

Great video. You should definitely put on your bucket list to go visit the Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument which is about 35 miles NE of Amarillo Texas. It is about a unique 12 square mile area bordering a river that produces Alibates flint. It was highly prized by native peoples since the ice age after the great flood. The native peoples would dig 6 to 8’ pit mines to harvest and trade the prized flint. Their fillings from working the flint are all over the place. It was active through the days of the Comanches, who were the last tribe to work it. It is part of the National Park system, and they conduct walking tours up to the tops of the Mesas where the mines are located. Outcroppings of Alibates flint are everywhere. A fascinating place. The rangers also do an excellent job of explaining the edible plant life, and animals that the people hunted.

That is the nicest bow i saw being made, looks excellent.

Amazing

Very nice shorty

Do you have issues with string follow with a bow that short?

Good👍👍

Do you have a book that can describe your primitive bows and arrows???

I noticed on your videos, the grain weight of the arrows are not given, an important factor...enjoying the videos. I just finished a 58 inch osage Cherokee bow ,a great shooter, a perfect simple design for hunting.

@G-and-J-Chapel-Artworks

Жыл бұрын

When making traditional arrows, the grain weight will vary depending on the staves you choose.

Do you offer bow building class

Beautiful bow, can you provide some information on the overall length and brace height? Your videos inspired me to try building a short bow myself :-) if only Osage would be easier to get in Europe

@FPSWildlifeAngler

Жыл бұрын

u can get stuff like ash or oak even red ceder will work

@caseysmith544

Жыл бұрын

Use wild European Mulberry trees if in the right parts, that is a good wood used for bows too by Native Tribes in USA and Canada.

What do you recommend for someone who's ridden horses their whole life, but want to get into mounted bow shooting, competition... I have a recurve bow that's about 25#, if I remember correctly, but my arms are Long... and I'm scared to pull it to far and break it...

@blacksnapper7684

Жыл бұрын

I suggest a Korean or Mongolian style bow…..

@opossum2255

Жыл бұрын

The Native American suggestion for this question would be a Comanche styled short bow .

@raynowakowski7539

Жыл бұрын

I am in the process of building a Lakota bow for a friend's son due to his smaller size. I research and found that the Lakota people were horse people and had bows no longer than 49".

Magnífico,muito bom..

Does a bow need to be more powerful than 40, or 50 lbs to hunt with and take medium size game???

@Daylon91

Жыл бұрын

No that is enough to kill anything in North America

Ok so I haven’t made a bow yet but I’m rrl interested and almost made one but it was not Osage idk what to use I live in KS it’s hard to find Osage here

@stevedriscoll2539

Жыл бұрын

I thought Kansas was loaded with Osage. My friend Gary got a log from Kansas, split it, it made 8 staves (as I remember, maybe only six though). I made a really nice bow, and there were at least 4 nice bows made ( at the time ). Probably, after time, that one log made at least six bows

@terrywright6076

Жыл бұрын

@@stevedriscoll2539 yeah I just figured out our woods is packed with it I didn’t know 😅

@stevedriscoll2539

Жыл бұрын

@@terrywright6076 awesome, your lucky! 🙂👍 I went to southern Iowa one time (they planted a lot of it for hedges between the fields) and cut some big logs...it was a neat experience.

Did you use Osage Orange for the bow?

@smcewen7

Жыл бұрын

Yeah he did,he mentions it at the beginning.

The Cherokee had two bow sizes. One short for hunting and a longer one for war. I’m only about 1% Cherokee.

The video is one year old, but hopefully, someone is going to answer. :) According to the bow plan, the width of the bow is one inch across the whole length. But when I see the finished bow (or at the beginning also) the tip is clearly narrower than the rest. Can someone explain that to me? Btw, thanks for the great video.

@vukpavlovic6611

5 ай бұрын

***At the beginning of the bow-making process, the tip is already narrower. Excuse my lousy English.

And camanche!

Have you tried using hide glue instead of wood glue?

When a Cherokee man by the name of Noel Grayson taught our class on bow making it was a longbow. Did Cherokee's use a shortbow? If so I didn't know this.

@Mwwright79

9 күн бұрын

There are short bows on record, 50 something inches to over 6’. This is an abnormally short bow and would be more of a plains horse bow just in the eastern woodlands selfbow style.

@severinevans346

9 күн бұрын

@@Mwwright79 50 inches is considered a shortbow? Interesting didn't know that either. But bows and making them are always fun to me.

Where do you get your Osage orange wood? Can you sell me a piece of Osage orange?

I did not realize that a table/ bench vise was part of primitive lifeways...

@PrimitiveLifeways

Жыл бұрын

Well yeah..... It is

@--press

Жыл бұрын

@@PrimitiveLifeways I think the word primitive would disagree

@PrimitiveLifeways

Жыл бұрын

@@--press Where is the video of you making a bow with just stone tools? Instead of bitching, show how it is done.

It's not the "Trail of Tears." It's the "Trail of Tears and Death."

I was hoping to see a more authentic process, but good work

@opossum2255

Жыл бұрын

Scraping with chert takes forever . Probably doesn’t have time for that

@PrimitiveLifeways

Жыл бұрын

If I used stone tools, I would still be working on this bow. Notice I used metal hand tools which are just one step up from stone. As far as the bow, this is simply a shorter version. The measurements, shape, and design is the same. Thank you for watching.

But the first pic isn’t accurate we didemt make headdresses only puffed ones but great vid tho

That is a very very nice bow but not what I would call a Cherokee bow. It is much too short and too narrow. A proper Cherokee D bow would be approximately 62 inches long between nocks and one and three-quarter inches wide minimum. But, that is not to say that your bow is not a very nice bow! Shoots great!

@karenrynearson1250

Жыл бұрын

I guess you missed the intro where he said that. 😄

@PrimitiveLifeways

Жыл бұрын

Great points. In the intro I mentioned this is a shorter version. The Cherokee bow is a long bow. This one is a scaled down version but the same "D" shape and measurement system.

@raynowakowski7539

Жыл бұрын

I have made quite a few Cherokee bows and have received an approval from Noel Grayson who is a Cherokee National Treasure in Oklahoma. Most of my Cherokee bows are 62-70".

@raynowakowski7539

Жыл бұрын

@@PrimitiveLifeways been trying to email you but Jeff@PrimativeLifeways comes back as "not found"

@NCWoodlandRoamer

Жыл бұрын

I would say that 1 and 3/4” is a bit too wide for a Cherokee bow from what I have seen.

Brace height is like nothing

Okay, you are showing photos of native head dresses that belong to other tribes. It is my understanding that the Cherokee people did not wear them unless they were doing a show for the public later in the years. Perhaps, speak to the elders of the Cherokee tribe on this.

BC and AD. There I fixed your error for you.

@PrimitiveLifeways

2 ай бұрын

What are you even talking about?

What anglo saxons did to the indians is the worst genocide in the history of man kind

@chrishultgren777

Жыл бұрын

The Spanish don't count? Hernando Cortez is forgotten?

@DDP24

Жыл бұрын

They called em slaves

@Daylon91

Жыл бұрын

@@DDP24 who the whites? Lol no they called us braves and scalp lifters lol slaves....

@caseysmith544

Жыл бұрын

That or what the white Spanish did to the people who are now Catalonian and were Muslim.

😅 that is not a true rat tail file . That is a chainsaw file, rat tail file is tapered

@PrimitiveLifeways

2 ай бұрын

This one is tapered an has a rat tail. Im astonished that is the only thing you took away from this whole video.

This would have been better if real native, made this. The way you explain what to do is too long. Just watching you is making me so mad

@Daylon91

Жыл бұрын

Lmao:D u have no patience clearly. Maybe take a chill pill and a sleepy time tea 🍵

@caseysmith544

Жыл бұрын

Use the North American weed from USA, the low strength stuff.

Do you sell your bows