Main Discussion Area > HowTo's and Build-a-longs
The Never ending build along.
Drawknife:
I have already come such a long way since beginning my primitive archery experience. I have almost always shot exclusively traditional bows. About three weeks ago now I got the itch to make my own bow. where to start YouTube of course and thus proceeded hours of watching all of Clay Hayes videos. Now I have already started this build a long so I'll catch up to speed and post as many pics as possible tomorrow. I needed some place to carve and not having a vice or a proper workbench, I did the natural thing and built a shave horse. I'll post pictures of that building process as well I picked up two draw knives: A generic small no name brand and a 2 cherries drawknife. Other tools I have used so far in this process are a complete set of Marple chisels. I found an inexpensive piece of Osage and am about two thirds done chasing a ring. The Osage I picked up has very very small rings and I have two minor violations and have decided to just back the bow. That's where I am I'll try and get you caught up on pictures as well. Let the shavings fly.
Drawknife:
More pics of shave horse
Drawknife:
The tools. This is much first build along btw any advice suggestions criticism is more than welcome. In fact will always be welcome no matter how good I get.
Drawknife:
The Osage
Drawknife:
I almost forgot to explain. The thread is titled the never ending build along because I have very limited fund and am expecting this to take a while to do. The lofty goal is to make a usable bow by this deer season. Anyone have experience with backings? Any particular backing you like and why?
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version