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Kestrel

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Book suggestions on the topic "how to make traditional bow"?
« on: November 10, 2009, 09:21:18 pm »
Hello,

What is the best book on the topic "how to make traditional bow, both recurve and longbow"?

Regards Kes
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Offline The Gopher

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Re: Book suggestions on the topic "how to make traditional bow"?
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2009, 09:25:09 pm »
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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Offline sailordad

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Re: Book suggestions on the topic "how to make traditional bow"?
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2009, 09:26:31 pm »
Dan you forgot the best of all

this website

i know its not a book,its better
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Offline adb

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Re: Book suggestions on the topic "how to make traditional bow"?
« Reply #3 on: November 10, 2009, 09:44:25 pm »
Ditto what The Gopher said.
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Re: Book suggestions on the topic "how to make traditional bow"?
« Reply #4 on: November 10, 2009, 10:23:29 pm »
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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Offline zeNBowyer

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Re: Book suggestions on the topic "how to make traditional bow"?
« Reply #5 on: November 10, 2009, 11:01:27 pm »
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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Offline RyanY

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Re: Book suggestions on the topic "how to make traditional bow"?
« Reply #6 on: November 10, 2009, 11:32:33 pm »
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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Offline The Gopher

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Re: Book suggestions on the topic "how to make traditional bow"?
« Reply #7 on: November 11, 2009, 09:56:27 am »
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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Offline Justin Snyder

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Re: Book suggestions on the topic "how to make traditional bow"?
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2009, 10:05:31 am »
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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Re: Book suggestions on the topic "how to make traditional bow"?
« Reply #9 on: November 11, 2009, 10:25:47 am »
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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Re: Book suggestions on the topic "how to make traditional bow"?
« Reply #10 on: November 11, 2009, 03:15:25 pm »
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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Kestrel

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Re: Book suggestions on the topic "how to make traditional bow"?
« Reply #11 on: November 12, 2009, 02:12:33 am »
Thanks for book suggestions!
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Offline zeNBowyer

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Re: Book suggestions on the topic "how to make traditional bow"?
« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2009, 04:54:39 am »
PA  magazine  is definitely a  unique set  of  good  material,  well  worth the  price
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Offline shamus

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Re: Book suggestions on the topic "how to make traditional bow"?
« Reply #13 on: November 12, 2009, 08:26:07 am »
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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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Re: Book suggestions on the topic "how to make traditional bow"?
« Reply #14 on: November 12, 2009, 08:51:46 am »
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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