Primitive Archer

Just finished this video today. It discusses what chasing a ring is, why we do it, and how it can be done along with what following the grain is all about.


https://youtu.be/2h-melSN16g?si=jFzJtGqptLLSZ3Ps

Dangit. Your posts always make me wish we had a laugh react like Facebook lol.

Frankly I am very disappointed that all of them sleep without something warm to cuddle up against. Pick out some good stones and heat them slowly by the fire until you can barely handle them with bare hands. A big ol' flat rock under your lower legs and feet, and another the size of your chest inside the bag and up against the small of your back or clutched to your chest.

Timber was (rightfully) concerned about his one foot being completely numb and the other mostly numb. A rock slowly heated next to the fire will soak up a lot of thermal energy and slowly release it back to the environment. And unlike your partner, it's not gonna react all dramatic like and shout "GAAAAAH! GET THOSE ICY FEET OFF ME!"

On a cold and lonely night a nice toasty rock will rock you to sleep!

And a warm rock doesn't get mad if you bring another hot rock into the bed roll with you

The safe formula for adult bow making it to make the bow twice the shooters draw length +10". For kid bows it depends on how big the kids are, I made ther little guys a 36" bow, when they out grow the bow add about 10 " to the bow for 8 year olds and another 10" for 10-12 year olds.

I made and gave away a number of kids bows, for safety reasons I always backed these bows with bamboo to make sure they would't break and hurt the child.

I have been advised a few times and read on a post here and there that when trying to figure out if a mystery wood would work for a bow a good approach is to make a mini bow. I am currently trying to build a mini bow but i honestly dont know where to begin. I am currently not in the US and have a few species of trees that i can try but as i am limited with tools and time i really cant spend too much time trying all these species of woods. So my plan hopefully is make a quick kids bow and see if it works but....

1. If i make it a kids bow what would be a good overall length? I havent made much kids bows and the ones i have were just rushed so that my kids can have something to shoot with.

2. How would i even scale up from that is there some kind of formula? For example if i make it 15-20 lbs how would i take that weight along with the dimensions and determine whether it would make a decent not too big 50-55 lbs bow. My goal isnt just to make a bow that is at a weight i like but make a decent bow that will last me a while.

3. I know there is a different method in which I can take a slat of the wood in question and do a bend test however that requires tools i dont have and cant get at the moment. I am very limited to an axe rasp some sandpaper and a scraper. Honestly not limited at all when it comes to building bows but i have gotten comfortable with my power tools and miss them dearly. I really dont know how good you have it till you lose it lol or in my case away from it for a while.

ideally i would like to make a 64-66 ntn bow with not too wide limbs maybe 2inches or less. I know i cant be picky here cause ultimatly its down to whether the wood can handle that or not but i thought i would put this information here just in case it will help with answering my question.