Advice Getting Started

[Tippecanoe41]

Hey everybody.  I'm just getting into primitive archery and I'm looking for some advice in getting started.  Basically, I would like a place to start learning.  If anybody could recommend the best book for how to create bows, arrows, arrowheads, and so on, I'd appreciate your help as I start the hobby.  Thanks in advance. 

[JEB]

Check with your local archery clubs and see if you have any traditional/primitive archers as members and make a connection with them. You can also use google and youtube to get a lot of help.

Where are you located? In my home town in west Michigan we have anywhere from 4 to 8 guys get together every Thursday night to work on self bows.  Some flint knap and we make arrow shafts on some nights.  I am sure this happens all over the United States.  You just have to ask around
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Good luck with your new endeavor and welcome aboard. 

[TRACY]

The Traditional Bowyers Bibles volume 1-4 would be a good start for you. Welcome aboard! Are you from Indiana ?


Tracy

[YosemiteBen]

Welcome to the addiction - get out while you stil can!

[JackCrafty]

You have stumbled onto the best book on the subject right here.  This forum is the best place to start!  There is more information here than in 100 books.  Seriously.

If you are brand new and never made bow and arrow before, you are in for quite a ride.  Most books are for advanced craftsman, so you will quickly get overwhelmed if you dive in.  Start slowly and just make things, break thinks, and have fun with it.