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Making a Primitive Bow, Part 3

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Uploaded by on Apr 3, 2011

In this video I show how to straighten one limb that is slightly out of line and how to tiller the stave. This is where the static piece of wood becomes a dynamic weapon: the bow.
Music (Skye Cullin, Finding the Balance) by Kevin Macleod (www.incompetech.com). Videography, editing, storyline and narration by Billy Berger.

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  • How do you make the limbs so even in the width, do you mark how deep you're going to cut/rasp?

  • how do u put the string on??? please help!

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  • can you send me a stave or two iv been working on bows sence i was little but all my local wood is vine maple and would like to open up to new bow types

  • instead of a wood rack, can I use a draw knife gently?

  • @MrGatekeeper48427 - Most types of thin, but yet durable string work. Cheap string at the hardware store. The ancients used woven grass.

  • what kind of string is best

    

  • Bare Grills ain't got JACK on this guy

  • Can you tell us the length of bowstring we need?

  • So many more people like your videos when you have a shirt on.

  • ive just fletched 500 oak bows in runescape in the time it took you to carve the wood. pussy.

  • you have some muscles :D

  • Man this IS primitive. He don't even use a tiller!

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