#primitive bow

[forkliftcertifiedlesbian]

archery!

[thestonedknifeman]

Bundle bow part 2

When harvesting your materials I would suggest trying to find stocks that are at least 5 to 6 ft tall and ranging from 3/8 diameter to 1 in. You're smaller diameter poles can you can get away with having it three 4 ft long.note: choose stocks with the least amount of knots and small branches.

And next yes you want to remove remove any small branches or Twigs to where they're just bare stock poles. After this you will want to select what's going to be the spine of the bow. Choose the thickest diameter piece that is the cleanest of knots or where any shoots or branches came off of the main stock. Will then take this selected piece and we will determine whether we want a long or a short bow.

[allaboutarchery]

Primitive Bows

Primitive

Primitive bows are wooden bows that have no fiberglass. They can be composite bows: in two or more pieces (perhaps different woods laminated together) and with different materials like horn and sinew, like the Hungarian styled bow below.

Then there is the self-bow which is made out of a single piece of wood and is often the kind you see in the archery tag when people post photos of bows they made themselves! (If anyone submits a photo of their primitive/self bow I'll use it in this post with a link to you!)

If backed by hide or sinew, it is still a self-bow since the wood itself is one piece.

As seen above, primitive bows can be both longbows and recurves.

Note: I don't know if using a modern string would negate the "primitive" aspect of a bow; I think it might just because it's modern but I'll check and get back to this. This goes for modern glue as well.