Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Bows => Topic started by: Kestrel on November 10, 2009, 09:21:18 pm
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Hello,
What is the best book on the topic "how to make traditional bow, both recurve and longbow"?
Regards Kes
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Traditional Bowyers Bible, Volumes 1 through 4, get 'em all
The Bent Stick by Comstock
Hunting the Osage Bow by Dean Torges
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Dan you forgot the best of all
this website
i know its not a book,its better
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Ditto what The Gopher said.
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the bow bibles 1 and 2 basically cover it, no?
add heat treating chapter from Vol 4 and the encouraging "character stave" chapter and you're golden
google what you wanna read...chances are amazon will let you read a chapter
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Another classic is Billet to Bows by Glenn St. Charles,
a very good read though I don't consider it a complete manual
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TBB 1 through 4. A lot of info is covered in 1 and 2 but my favorite by far is volume 4. It has a list of bow woods, explains heat treating and the mass principle and the design and performance section is awesome. I keep that one by my bed side. ;)
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Thats funny Ryoon, my wife asks me why i always have the same four books on my nightstand, (TBB 1-4). i'm always flipping through them to remind me of something or check on something else, or just because i like to.
I agree on volume 4, it is one of my favorites.
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Lets certainly not forget the Primitive Archer magazine. I learned a lot from the Traditional Bowyers Bibles, but I probably use more info from the magazine than I do from any books. Articles like Marc StLouis' making a high performance selfbow that taught me how to temper bellies. And information on about every type of bow you can imagine. The most current information dropped at your mailbox every month.
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good point, last year i treated myself to the complete set of all the back issues, i am still loving every page, i'm up to volume 7 now. some of the best reading there is, and full of useful info.
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Dean Torges book "Hunting the Osage Bow" is one of my favorite books. It has more soul to it than any of the other books ive read and really gets you into bow making i believe.
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Thanks for book suggestions!
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PA magazine is definitely a unique set of good material, well worth the price
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Traditional Bowyers Bible, Volumes 1 through 4, get 'em all
The Bent Stick by Comstock
Agreed. Get those 5 books at the very least.
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i started with a book called, bows and arrows the cherokee way by al herin, very good book also billets to bows Glenn StCharles.
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American Indian Archery
By Reginald and Gladys Laubin, very interesting book on American Indian Archery, covering designs, techniques, lots color prints, here's an excerpt from one chapter on Indian skirmishes:
"De Soto took an Indian prisoner and had him demonstrate the power and accuracy of his shooting. He pierced a coat of chain mail at 150 paces. A second coat of mail was then placed on top of the first, and an arrow pierced both of them but did not go completely through as it had the first time"
no sissy bows here!
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the bowyers bibles definately ,hunting the osage bow ,the archers craft ,bent stick all good reading !!
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bows and arrows the cherokee way by al herin,
Absolutely! Al is a great guy and the Cherokee Bows and Arrows" is a valuable resource.