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Best sinle book for beginners?

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HoBow:
Good choice. Bent Stick is the easiest book to read- IMO.

Justin Snyder:
If you get 5 students you can always offer them the other book at your cost and they will be set.

stringstretcher:
Don't forget Stil Wilcox's, The Art of Making a Selfbow.  Some great and down to earth info in that book.

Eric Krewson:
The Bent Stick for sure. Jim Hamm is a great guy but his book has some info in it that is not the best for making an osage bow. Leaving an island of wood around a pin is one that comes to mind as well as whip tillering a bow. TBB1 is a little much for a rank beginner, all the tillering charts and graphs go way beyond what a newbie can absorb.

Want some tillering gizmos for your class? I have a box full of them laying around in my shop somewhere.

NTD:
"TBB1 is a little much for a rank beginner, all the tillering charts and graphs go way beyond what a newbie can absorb. "

This is true.  I first read TBB1 11 years ago and I can still learn from it when I pick it up.  Although with only that book and a handplane I made my first bow with a hatchet and a handplane at 15 years old.  It shot thousands of arrows that summer.

But it is very hard to absorb a lot of that information at once.  It takes hours knee deep in shavings for some of those lessons to transfer from reading material to usuable knowledge.  But I think it's fun to go back and read something and go, "Oh, now I get it". 
happens all the time with this forum for me :)

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